I’m not claiming this is the only way to do things. The protocol I’ll discuss herein is a mixture of using Xcode “targets” and “schemes.” I’m sure all sorts of people have all sorts of ways of doing things differently, but I’ve found that this works best for me. Let’s decouple our coding from these usually boring but necessary responsibilities.

Developers shouldn’t be dealing with such tasks using hacks, pyramid-of-doom if statements, and hardcoding values and/or logic. When it comes to the more mundane tasks, like changing an app’s name, version number, help bundle, app icon, or copyright text, programmers should be able to turn to Xcode’s tools. Xcode targets can let you take related code, put it into one project, yet simultaneously target that code at each of Apple’s platforms: iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. If developers take the time to harness the power of Xcode’s features, they can spend most of their time doing what they should be doing: designing, writing, and organizing their code using tools like architectural design patterns (MVVM), tactical design patterns (factory method, facade, adapter), object-oriented techniques, protocol-oriented techniques, generics, delegation - all good, solid development concepts.ĭevelopers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to logically organize and group related code and, conversely, logically separate unrelated code.

When finished reading this tutorial, you’ll see that you can neatly organize code into one project that’s capable of producing binaries for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. I’ve found that, because of the sheer number of project settings, developers often take one look at say, Xcode’s long, long list of Build Settings, and want to curl up and pass out. Integrated development environments (IDEs) like Xcode offer very powerful tools, like targets, that allow developers to decouple nitty-gritty tasks that used to be done in code (or manually) out into project configuration settings. A lot of time can be saved when developers realize that not everything they’re required to do has to be done by writing software language code, like Swift. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to leverage Xcode targets to control the massive complexity involved in building iOS (and macOS, watchOS, and tvOS) apps. My original article - “Dividing and Conquering Your Xcode Projects with Targets” - was published on.

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