Tag Archives: Project

original source : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20637435/xcode-what-is-a-target-and-scheme-in-plain-language

I’ve added in Workspace and Project too!

• Workspace – Contains one or more projects. These projects usually relate to one another
• Project – Contains code and resources, etc. (You’ll be used to these!)
• Target – Each project has one or more targets.

Each target defines a list of build settings for that project
Each target also defines a list of classes, resources, custom scripts etc to include/ use when building.
Targets are usually used for different distributions of the same project.
For example, my project has two targets, a “normal” build and an “office” build that has extra testing features and may contain several background music tracks and a button to change the track (as it currently does).
You’ll be used to adding classes and resources to your default target as you add them.
You can pick and choose which classes / resources are added to which target.
If you add tests, this also adds a new target.
In my example, I have a “DebugHandler” class that is added to my office build

• Scheme – A scheme defines what happens when you press “Build”, “Test”, “Profile”, etc.

Usually, each target has at least one scheme
You can autocreate schemes for your targets by going to Scheme > Manage Schemes and pressing “Autocreate Schemes Now”