Xcode – Could not launch app – No such file or directory Error.

I’ve been expanding the amount of devices I have and returning to old code to try and sort out and update code that doesn’t run on newer IOS’s. While trying to compile Loopy Tunes, I came across the error  from Xcode, “could  not launch app, no such file or directory exists..” So here I found the solution due to one helpful blogger,

http://dhilipsiva.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/xcode-could-not-launch-app-no-such-file.html

Orientation always in Portrait iOS6

Right had to do a bit of research for this one, here is the fix I found that works from Natalie London

In your APP DELEGATE.m

NSString *reqSysVer = @"6.0";
NSString *currSysVer = [[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];

if ([currSysVer compare:reqSysVer options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending){
[window setRootViewController:viewController]; // This is for IOS6.....
}else{
[window addSubview: viewController.view]; //This is for < IOS6....... (the old way)
}

In your ROOTVIEWCONTROLLER.m //will only be compiled for IOS6

FOR LANDSCAPE USE THIS


- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation{
return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
}

- (BOOL) shouldAutorotate {
return YES;
}

FOR PORTRAIT USE THIS


- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations {
return  UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation{
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}

- (BOOL) shouldAutorotate {
return YES;
}

The page I got this from is

https://devforums.apple.com/message/734618#734618

Creating an Ad Hoc version of your app

I could write out how to do this, but I couldn’t do better than this post here.

http://www.musicalgeometry.com/?p=1237

And in case you need to know how to create your Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile, look at the Apple notes here

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ToolsLanguages/Conceptual/DevPortalGuide/CreatingandDownloadingaDistributionProvisioningProfile/CreatingandDownloadingaDistributionProvisioningProfile.html

And if you want to know how to add devices for testing. Get the UDID from the iphone or ipad, and in the the IOS Provisioning Portal go to “devices”. Select “add devices” in the top right corner. Enter the device name and device ID and hit “submit”.

EXC_BAD_ACCESS

Right so I get this one a lot, especially when I’m coding late at night and tired…which is most of the time. So, my main culprits are objects that I haven’t released in my dealloc method.

Especially look for anything that you created with ALLOC INIT, for example an array

[[NSMutableArray alloc] init]

You must, must, must release it.

Second most common is not removing the class from observing a Notification. So if you have something like

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(classMethod:) name:@"notificationName" object:nil];

Then again in your dealloc method, you must put this

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];

I’m sure there are more things, and I’ll add notes as I discover them.

xcode persistent data

So you want to save some data to the users device for use in your app. The way to do it is thusly,

// declare your app data with whatever name you like
NSUserDefaults *yourAppData = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];

// retrieve your data with
NSString *myString = [yourAppData objectForKey:@"StringVariableName"];
int myInt = [yourAppData integerForKey:@"IntVariableName"];

// now if this is the first time the app has been run, these won't have any value,
// so it's probably best just to check they aren't null before you try to use them
if(!myString){
// then this is the first time it's been accessed
}else{
// otherwise it has been created and has got a value so do whatever you need to with it here
}

// now to set data use the following

[yourAppData setObject:@"someStringData" forKey:@"StringVariableName"];
[yourAppData setInteger:2 forKey:@"IntVariableName"];

Load a class from String

I often need to dynamically load a class from a concatinated combination of strings and integers. So here is how you do it. In a game for example, you may have a LevelID stored in your appdelegate that changes at the game progresses, so I’ve made the example grabbing such a levelID from the delegate class.

YourAppDelegate *theDelegate = (YourAppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
int LevelID = [theDelegate getLevelID];
NSString *levelToLoad = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Level%i",LevelID];
Class newLevel = NSClassFromString(levelToLoad);

BAM, and it’s done.