Real Life Xcode 4 File and Project Templates

Maintainer: Matt Nunogawa (@amattn on twitter and github) version: 0.9.0

Better Xcode file and project templates. Over a decade's worth of best practices with Cocoa distilled down into fork-tender templates.

File Templates:

• Improved organization
• Commonly used methods stubbed out, commented
• Headerdoc comments
• Built for ARC

Project templates:

• More Sane Folder Layout
• Improved Project Navigator Organization
• more TODO

The Project templates are opinionated, and also a work in progress.

The Project templates in general are difficult to test. The Single View Application template alone has 24 possible outputs for the configuration options. If you come across a combination that doesn't build or seems not to work, please let me know.

Easy Install via Git

The easiest way is to simply clone this into your Developer library directory:

mkdir -p $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/
cd $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/
git clone git://github.com/amattn/RealLifeXcode4Templates.git

Updating is simply:

cd $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/RealLifeXcode4Templates
git pull

Install into any Directory

From the directory of your choice, clone the repository

git clone git://github.com/amattn/RealLifeXcode4Templates.git
cd RealLifeXcode4Templates

Run the following commands from the directory where you cloned:

mkdir -p $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/RealLifeXcode4Templates
rsync --checksum --recursive --delete --exclude=".git" . $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/RealLifeXcode4Templates

In order to update, you can use the same rsync command:

git pull
rsync --checksum --recursive --delete --exclude=".git" . $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/RealLifeXcode4Templates 

Please note that the above command will overwrite any changes or customizations you may have made. You can add the --dry-run --verbose to get a preview of which files have changed.