Troubleshooting Xcode

by Magno Urbano

Overview

Troubleshooting Xcode is a handbook for software developers of all levels creating applications for iOS and OS X using both Objective-C and Swift.

If you’ve struggled in the past to make Xcode work as expected, to solve problems that defy logic, and to understand Xcode’s misleading or cryptic error messages and unexpected crashes, Troubleshoot

ing Xcode is for you.

Troubleshooting Xcode is great for the developer wanting to extend his or her knowledge about obscure problems and limitations involving the use of Xcode, Objective-C, and Swift as well as how to use automation to increase productivity and make some repetitive tasks easier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484215616
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/23/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	125
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Magno Urbano is a digital artist with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He earned a degree in Electrical Engineering but later decided to work as a software engineer. He has 15 books published in Portugal and near a hundred articles and multimedia contents published by the most important magazines in Europe and the Americas.

He worked for almost a decade in the Visual Effects & Post Production Center of Globo Network TV (GNT) and in the leading position in the Multimedia Department of the Radio and Television of Portugal (RTP).

Since 2005 he has been an official Adobe beta-tester.

Since 2008 he has been developing iOS and Mac OS X applications. During this period he had developed and published nearly 100 apps distributed by the Apple Store.

Table of Contents

1. Xcode crashing when opening a project file
   
2. The identity used to sign the executable is invalid
   
3. Xcode fails to compile and blames “SBPartialInfo”
   
4. No matching provisioning profiles found
   
5. Compressing images better than Photoshop
   
6. Creating packages for in-app purchases
   
7. Reduce up to 75% of the compiling time
   
8. Declaring impossible “constants” in Objective-C
   
9. Concurrency with Core Data
   
10. Creating icons for your apps from Terminal
    
11. UINavigationBar tint not working
    
12. Debugging an insanely hard Quartz error
    
13. Adding objects to a mutable array concurrently
    
14. The app is damaged and can’t be opened
    
15. Application failing to obtain a receipt
    
16. Classes with the same name on different targets
    

A case against Base Internationalization

Checking for missing Localizable.strings

You are declaring your NSString wrong

CocoaPods: /Manifest.lock: No such file or directory

Asset Catalogs bug

App crashing without giving you clues

NSUserDefaults not working for a sandboxed app

Interface elements not updating

Find and replace using regex

Extracting a dictionary from an array

Magical way of counting elements on an array

OS X app not launching with the correct size

Detecting the application target

Disabling a method

Deprecating a method

Xcode “beachballs” when opening a project

UIButton not grayed out

Catching memory corruption

SpriteKit crashing on didBeginContact:

SpriteKit object not respecting boundaries

A case against using Storyboards for Cocoa apps

UIView Classes with independent rounded corners

Making NSViews compatible with UIViews

Detect with the UIPickerView stops spinning

“Insane” NSDates

Localizing the application name

Centering views horizontally with Auto Layout

Elements grayed out on Storyboard after copying

Debugging Core Data

“The package does not contain an Info.plist”

Check the version of an app on the App Store

Power tips: Beyond Xcode