Step 9: Edit the Info.plist File

When you explored the Xcode project window in Step 2, one of the files you saw in the Resources group in the Groups & Files pane was Vermont_Recipes-Info.plist. You made one change to its contents at the end of Step 5. In this step, you examine the remainder of the file’s contents and edit some more entries. This is a tedious and technical process, but you have to do it in every new project.

Xcode saves the Vermont_Recipes-Info.plist file in the built application package under the generic name Info.plist. For this reason, it is customary to refer to it simply as the Info.plist file. When building a simple application from scratch, you may use the generic name in the project folder. However, the document-based application template gives it the more specific name to distinguish it from a second Info.plist file in this project, Importer-Info.plist. One of the fields in the project’s build settings tells Xcode which of these files it should save as the application’s main Info.plist file, as you will see in Step 12.