How to rename project in Xcode 3.x

Voices from the crowd, 15 so far

Thanks! This was easy enough, but I was trying to find a “supported” way to do it :) I wasted too much time on that!

by Jason Green
1 month, 1 week after the post

[…] I recent created a new iPhone XCode project based off of one of the samples provided by Apple. Beause of this the XCode project was called AppleSample.xcodeproj and it built an app called AppleSample.app. I wanted to rename the project and give it my own name. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Here are some instructions which are based off some instructions I found here (http://aplus.rs/cocoa/how-to-rename-project-in-xcode-3x/) […]

by Doug Diego » How To Rename an iPhone XCode Project
2 months, 1 week after the post

thanks man i was looking for a solution, and this seems to be the easiest one around :)

im also following the same book as you…

by chumbawumba
5 months, 2 weeks after the post

Don’t forget to open your .xib files with a text editor and do a search/replace there as well.

Also rename your class files and all references inside them to be safe.

by Will Culpepper
8 months, 3 weeks after the post

Thanks for this! It didnt work at first, so I just opened all class files and xib files and did a Cmd +F and choose to replace all old text with new, it worked great!

by Chris Mathews
9 months after the post

[…] Thanks to Aleksandar Vacić for posting this tutorial. […]

by xocolatl. » Blog Archive » Working with Sample Code: Rename your project in Xcode 3.x
11 months, 2 weeks after the post

Thanks for the post. It was a huge help

by Sean Barenz
1 year after the post

Aleksandar, thanks for your post.

I found that I did not have to change the .pch file name … in fact if I did , the program crashed. I left it alone and everything seems to work fine.

by Tom Jennings
1 year after the post

Good jooob…
just to mention few points:
1. Its better if you first refactor the name of your delegate through xcode to new name delgate.
2. the name of header files do not get refactored u have to do those manually.
3. you have to rename plist, pch.
4. search in your project with old name in xcode and replace with new name carefully.

by muz
1 year, 2 months after the post

That helped a lot!, thanks!

by N.B.
1 year, 5 months after the post

Instead we can create a different target and keep all versions in same project isn’t it?

by Manjunath HS
1 year, 5 months after the post

Thanks. This post was very useful. I hope this feature gets supported in the next releases of Xcode. :)

by Paul
1 year, 6 months after the post

Now you’ve tried the hard way, try this:

In Xcode menu go to Project and select Rename.

That’s all Folks

by Carl Grainger
1 year, 6 months after the post

I have listed the steps I normally use and you don’t have to deal with the xcodeproj file directly:

http://www.nanaimostudio.com/blog/2010/2/15/renaming-project-in-xcode-the-simple-way.html

by Boon
1 year, 6 months after the post

Rather than create a slew of projects with differing names, this would have been a good chance to learn about using a source code repository. It makes comparing different states of a project much easier.

by abizer
1 year, 7 months after the post