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In old versions of Xcode, an "Empty Application" would be a project with all the information to build and everything, but no files except the App Delegate would be added.

In the newer versions of Xcode, the "Empty Application" option is no longer the same. Instead of creating a project with no files but the App Delegate, it creates nothing at all! You either have to drag in other files pre-made, or you have to create all the files, including the App Delegate and all of it's once "default" functions.

How would I get the previous version of "Empty Application"? "Single View Application" is a little different, but nothing else seems to be similar.

Christian Kreiter
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How would I get the previous version of "Empty Application"

You would have to make it for yourself by paring down the Single View template-based project.

So, for Objective-C:

  1. Delete the storyboard.

  2. Edit the target and delete "Main" where it asks for the storyboard name. Hit Tab to make this change "stick".

  3. Delete the view controller files.

  4. Make a new view controller and (optionally) a .xib paired with it, to give yourself a starting place. Let say it's called MyViewController.

  5. Delete everything in the App Delegate implementation of applicationDidFinishLaunching and replace it with:

    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
self.window.rootViewController = [MyViewController new];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
matt
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  • Answer my question about the language and I'll provide more info. I'm just paused, waiting for you! – matt May 18 '15 at 22:14
  • Do all this. Or... take the hint. Apple wants people using storyboards. – nhgrif May 18 '15 at 22:21
  • Or just download this project as a starting place: https://github.com/mattneub/Programming-iOS-Book-Examples/tree/master/iOS7bookExamples/bk2ch06p236manualViewController/ch19p575manualViewController – matt May 18 '15 at 22:22
  • Thanks, matt, I'll take this into consideration. I may note this as accepted if I don't find any better answers :) – Christian Kreiter May 18 '15 at 22:24
  • You hardly can get a better answer, since the steps I have just outlined are precisely what is necessary to go from what the Single View template gives you to what the Empty template used to give you. The difference is only that the Empty template has no view controller - but that is now illegal, so my instructions did not suggest going that far. – matt May 18 '15 at 23:34