XCode 7. iOS simulators missing and not installable

One possible issue is that there may be old leftover simulators installed, which are not compatible with the new XCode, and their presence causes the whole Simulator to fail. To get rid of them, delete the simulators in /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes (for me there was an iOS 7 simulator there which was the issue). Relaunch XCode after … Read more

pageViewController setViewControllers crashes with “Invalid parameter not satisfying: [views count] == 3”

I ran into the same problem, and was able to solve it using a tip from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/20973822/3757370. Simply placing the setViewControllers:direction:animated:completion: code inside of a dispatch_async block on the main queue fixed it for me. For you this would look like dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ [self.pageViewController setViewControllers:@[ [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:_pageStoryBoardIDs[0]] ] direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionReverse animated:YES completion:nil]; }); Hope … Read more

Xcode 4 archive warning to skip copy phase

The solution would be to go to the build settings of your application target (not the help tool target) and set “Strip Debug Symbols During Copy” to “No”. This is the key COPY_PHASE_STRIP. Activating this setting causes binary files which are copied during the build (e.g., in a Copy Bundle Resources or Copy Files build … Read more

Attempt to install Qt on OS X gives ‘You need to install Xcode 5.0.0’, but this version is so old it’s not available

I ran into the same problem and solved it by following the instructions here. This link describes a similar, but slightly different installer issue. To summarize, you need to ensure that the Xcode command line tools are installed and set up correctly. I already had them installed, but had to go into Preferences -> Locations … Read more

Downloading Xcode with wget or curl

For Chrome, Install cookies.txt Chrome extension Login to Apple Developer site and get the url for downloading Run cookies.txt extension and download cookies.txt file From the cookies.txt download directory, load cookies into wget and start resumable download. For example, to download Xcode_7.dmg, you would run: wget –load-cookies=cookies.txt -c http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7/Xcode_7.dmg

Xcode log “Writing analzed variants”

According to Quinn “The Eskimo!” at Apple Developer Technical Support, this message is Xcode log noise and can be ignored. An Apple bug report should be filed to help flag and silence the log. https://developers.apple.com/forums/thread/689066 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/115461 It’s important to keep an eye on log messages and fix any obvious problems they call out. However, if … Read more