In my SPManager app, when I run all unit tests in Xcode, it appears to pick up an environment variable set in Current Scheme->Test->Arguments. But if I click next to a single test in the gutter in the

I tend to neglect my unit tests for long stretches, and pay the price. One thing that would help would be if I had to deal with compiler errors each time I made a change to the main target. Is there a

Working on an interview project yesterday, I added a utility written years ago that lets you check if your iOS app is built with for Debug, Release or Test (if you have added a Test build config) afte

Not really an Xcode question, but if anyone has done this, it'd be one of you guys. Our app uses a KEXT (Fuse) to implement what is effectively a shared network vol on the desktop. And today, I tried

It’s been at least a decad too long. Does anyone have any shortcuts that I can remember to actually learn Xcode’s autocomplete? It feels as if it’s created by aliens even after 12 years. Thanks. Alex

Xcode 11.3.1 How can I read Xcode build symbols (e.g., $(MARKETING_VERSION)) from within my macOS app? -Carl

Use caution opening Xcode projects downloaded from the interwebs: There’s a new(ly-discovered) exploit that hides inside projects and installs malware when the target is built, using a rogue build scr

Objc++, macOS 10.14, OpenCV2 I'm trying to issue Objc methods from within a .mm file, without success. For instance: [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"GUIStatusUpdate" objec

Xcode 11.3.1 What is the syntax to declare an Objc method as 'noreturn'? I can't find any documentation on it anywhere. ∙ Xcode: Method 'providerCV06' could be declared with attribute 'noreturn' -Carl

Xcode 11.2.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, ObjC This morning Xcode decided to stifle all NSLogs in _one_ of my macOS development apps. printfs and fprintf(stderr,*) still get written to the Xcode debug windo

Ok next question - this should be obvious but has stopped me. First I am running Objective-C applications (simple ones so far) as command line applications. So I have the syntax figured out, etc. I ca

Is it just my luck - or is Xcode 11 unusable? I just finally updated to Catalina and installed Xcode 11 (all latest versions of course). Xcode 11 is totally non-responsive. In Interface Builder, when

Mac OS 10.15.2 Xcode 11.5 Don’t call your app SwiftUI. If you create an iOS Single View project and name your app something like Sample, the app will be able to build and preview. If you misguidedly y

Sometimes I get a report of a hang from a user of my product, with output from the ‘sample’ tool but not enough information to replicate a hang on my end. Let’s say it starts like this: Call graph: 90

My company's app is using the Objective C GVRSDK framework in their app (Google). This framework is no longer supported. It has a lot of classes, and one of them links to UIWebView, meaning in Decembe

All - I have written "command line" applications for a couple of years - actually I edit my code and run it from within XCode. It is not elegant but it works great; they are in C and C++ so far. They

I've created a dynamic C library, libgauss.dylib, and copied it into /usr/local/lib. My MacOS 10.14 app builds fine against it, but won't run, complaining that the library doesn't have a "Team ID" and

My app ships with a couple of dependent binaries, a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. I do not own these binaries, so have no control over them. On deployment in pre-Catalina, I run the 32-bit version, as

Its been a while since I needed to use Instruments to track down a memory leak. But now I'm working for someone whose app has a massive 70M leak on a certain transition. So yeah, like the old adage, "

I'm working with a huge (1.4MB) plist file, and I suspect there may be an error with respect to syntax or formatting somewhere therein. Isn't there an Xcode-related command line tool plist file sanity