New iOS Project

Contents

• Purpose
• Preconditions
  • Valid Name
• Steps
  • Basics
  • (Optional) Remove Storyboard
  • (Optional) Add SwiftLint
• On Completion

Purpose

Consistent creation of iOS projects.

Preconditions

Valid Name

Convention is to use CamelCase. SwiftLint will throw warnings unless rule is excluded.

Steps

Basics

• File -> New -> Project
• Select Single View App (or appropriate type)
• Add ProjectName
• Select Language: Swift
• Select User Interface: Storyboard
• Check appropriate boxes for Core Data / tests
• Select parent directory. Note: Xcode will create a directory ProjectName within the selected parent directory.
• Do not check box to initialize git repository. Handle separately.

(Optional) Remove Storyboard

• Focus Info.plist in Project Navigator
• Remove key UISceneStoryboardFile:
  • Expand:
    • Information Property List
      • Application Scene Manifest
        • Scene Configuration
          • Application Session Role
            • Item 0
  • Delete entry Storyboard Name
• Remove key UIMainStoryboardFile:
  • Expand:
    • Information Property List
  • Delete entry Main storyboard file base name
• Delete Main.storyboard
• Create UIViewController named MainViewController.swift
• Update SceneDelegate.swift with sample code below
• Clean and Build

Sample SceneDelegate.swift function code:

func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
  if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
    window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
    window?.rootViewController = MainViewController()
    window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
  }
}

(Optional) Add SwiftLint

Refer to instructions in the Xcode Integration section of the SwiftLint Reference.

On Completion

• git repository is created
• git repository remote on GitHub