Appendix A. Project settings
Apple engineers provide app developers with an exceptional degree of configurability for their projects and apps. On the flip side, all these customizable settings can be intimidating—the build settings alone could contain approximately 300 customizable fields!
We’ll take a short tour of project settings, but don’t be alarmed: it’s not necessary to understand the detailed implications of every setting you see. In many cases, leaving them at their default is the best option.
If you select the project itself in the Project Navigator, you’ll see the project editor (see figure A.1). Here, you can edit the settings for your project or your target. The Projects and Targets column on the left shows what you’re currently editing, and shows that in addition to your app target, Xcode by default created two targets for your unit and UI tests. You’ll find that you’ll most often be editing the settings for your main app target.
Along the top of the project editor, you’ll find the Settings tabs, where you can choose which settings you wish to edit in the settings pane.
In the main target’s General tab, you’ll find the most commonly needed settings (see figure A.1).
You’ll recognize several of these from when you created your project, along with a few more: