how to display specific screen for first ever time the app has been launched

Question

I'm trying to find a way in which i can detect the first ever time my app has been launched/used so i can display a set-up screen. After the first ever launch has happened and the set-up has been completed i would like the app to just default to my main screen.

Does anyone have any ways in which i could achieve this? Also, i would like the app to default to the main screen even if the app has been killed after the set-up has been completed once.

I'm new to iOS and was thinking of possibly using a plist to store a value which would be changed on the first ever launch? But i'm not sure, any help and advice would be much appreciated with any bit's of code that anyone would like to share.

Thanks

Could you not just store a db value that says setup is done and have it run only when that value is false? - does it need to be a screen or is it just code that runs on setup? — Daniel Casserly, Oct 08 '13 at 10:59

user1673099 · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-08T12:56:19.500

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Try this way..

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]] ;

if ([[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] ValueForKey:@"FirstLaunched"] isEqualtostring:@"YES"]) // Not first Launch
    {
   self.window.rootViewController = Main Screen;
    }
    else //first Launch
    {
      self.window.rootViewController = ONE TIME SCREEN;
 [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]setValue:@"YES" forKey:@"FirstLaunched"];
    }
 [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}

edited Oct 08 '13 at 12:56

answered Oct 08 '13 at 11:13

user1673099

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i'll give it a go and will let you know soon. but looks like it is what im looking for or something i can work with. thanks – Fernando Oct 08 '13 at 11:24
just trying to get the self.window.rootViewController line to work as it cannot see the view controllers i want it to show – Fernando Oct 08 '13 at 12:41
@Fernando, can you post your code? – user1673099 Oct 08 '13 at 12:43
did you solved your problem? – user1673099 Oct 08 '13 at 13:16
i invited you to chat, did you get it? – Fernando Oct 08 '13 at 13:25

how to display specific screen for first ever time the app has been launched

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