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Checkerboard Texture

Project creation and Setup

1. Create a new Single View Application

   XCode > File > New > Project > iOS > Application > Single View Application

2. Project Details

• Product Name: Name of your project
• Team: None
• Organization Name: Keep empty
• Organization Identifier: com.some.identifier
• Language: Objective-C
• Use Core Data: Un-check
• Include Unit Tests: Un-check
• Include UI Tests: Un-check

3. Project settings

   In left panel > click on blue icon (.xCodeproj). In middle pane, from top tab bar, choose General tab.

• Signing: Un-check automatically manage signing.
• Keep signing (debug) and signing (release) untouched.
• Deployment info:
• Deployment Target: Select latest available option.
• Device: iPhone and/or iPad.
• Main Interface: Keep empty.
• Device Orientation : Check landscape right and landscape left.
• Check Hide status bar checkbox.
• Check Requires full screen checkbox.
• App icons and launch images
• If you have icons, then click the arrow icon ahead of app icons source field and then drag and drop specific sized png images onto the image placeholders.
• Launch screen file: Keep empty.

4. Disable ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)

• In left pane, click top level project name file (blue icon).
• In middle pane, go to Build Settings and navigate to Apple llvm - language - objective c category.
• Inside it look for Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting and select No.

5. Resources

• In left pane > right click on choose New group. Rename the New group to resources.
• In left pane > click on Issue Navigator icon and then click on the actual issue text. From displayed dialog, choose Add to add the required default launch image for retina. Drag this image into this resources group.

Preview

• Checkerboard Texture