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When Xcode 4.5 suddenly stops running your app on a device (could not launch app)

I’ve had this problem that Xcode 4.5 would run my app fine in the simulator, but didn’t do so anymore on the device. Something about the “derived data folder was not found”. I checked, it was definitely there. Then I found this post on Stackoverflow to show some suggestions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11456312/xcode-suddenly-stopped-running-project-on-hardware-could-not-launch-xxx-app This solution worked for me […]

How to place an existing Xcode project under Version Control with Git (and ignore files you don’t want to track)

Usually when you create a new Xcode Project you can choose to setup a new Git repository. This is the best and easiest way to track your changes. However if you have a project that is not under version control you can create a Git repository retrospectively. This is fairly straightforward using the Terminal app […]

How to place an existing Xcode project under Version Control with Git (and ignore files you don’t want to track)

Usually when you create a new Xcode Project you can choose to setup a new Git repository. This is the best and easiest way to track your changes. However if you have a project that is not under version control you can create a Git repository retrospectively. This is fairly straightforward using the Terminal app […]

How to rename an app in Xcode 4.5

You can conveniently rename an app you’ve started. For this example, we have a project called Old Project, created from the Master/Detail Template. Three areas need to be changed here: the actual app name and targets the scheme the group in which most project files reside Renaming the app Click on the blue Project, wait […]

How to use Xcode with a remote Git server

Xcode_iconImagine you’ve created a project in Xcode with a local Git repository. Now you’d like to put this online so that others can collaborate with you. How do you do that?

This has been puzzling me for a while, and there doesn’t seem to be a clear documentation on this subject – so I’ve decided to take some notes as I figured it out. Here are step by step instructions on how to make it work.

All we need is a server running Git and SSH credentials to that server to get started.

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