How to be a lazy developer and better manage your application development lifecycle. Discover how to leverage build settings and build schemes to simplify and make your deployment more robust when switching from development to app store distribution.

1. Your .xcodeproj can
do more than you think
or How to be a lazy ass developer
Florent Vilmart - @mrf12t - Soevolved - I Can Go Without

2. What's the big deal?
Live vs dev vs staging...
• Manage development cycle
• Not making ANY mistakes
• Reduce clutter
• Be lazy

3. The big question?
How do I manage to get multiple
apps that are (almost) the same
app?

4. What's an app?
• CFBundleIdentifer (com.awesome.$
{PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}
• CFBundleIcons
• CFBundleDisplayName (My App!)
• CFBundleURLTypes (External open, FB callback...)
• + other things (like your awesome code)

5. Where to start?
• Multiple targets
• Same target but different plist
• Same target, same plist, custom settings

6. The strategy
• Single target
• Single Plist
• 3 Build Configurations
• App Store (live release)
• Debug (simulator and device dev)
• Release (Testflight distribution of dev)

7. Build settings and
macros
• PRODUCT_NAME
• App Store : myawesomeapp
• Release+Debug : myawesomeapp-dev
• User defined: FACEBOOK_APP_ID,
PARSE_APP_ID, PARSE_CLIENT_KEY...

8. myawesomeapp.plist
• CustomKey = ${USER_DEFINED_KEY}
• Easy access in the app, the build
configuration defines whatever you like
• Ease of configuration duplication

9. Custom Everything?
• Icon file:
• appIcon${PRODUCT_NAME}@2x.png
• App Name:
• ${MY_CUSTOM_APP_NAME}
• URLS?
• Same F****N way!

10. What do we got now?
• Single app
• Single source
• Unlimited possibilities
• Just switch the target/scheme in order to
distribute properly

11. Bonus: Ultra Lazy
Distribution
I want to
${BREW_MORE_COFFEE}
while my app get distributed
to my testers.

12. Extreme Lazyness
1. Archive the app
2. Sign the package
3. Get the git logs
4. Upload to TestFlight
5. Notify the distribution list

13. Let's have a look
• https://gist.github.com/vfloz/7434106