iOS 8: Launch Screen StoryBoard appears black [single XIB file works fine]

Question

So I tried creating a launch storyboard for my iOS 8 app using this tutorial

However, I only get a black screen when I launch my app. A single launch screen.xib file works perfectly, however, when I try to use a storyboard, it doesn't work.

I tried a storyboard with just a single view controller, but it still gives me a black screen, hence I believe the issue is with storyboard files in my setup. Any ideas?

[XCode version 6.4]

EDIT: So I just want to clarify that it is the launch screen that appears black. The main storyboard itself appears correctly when the app has finished loading

Answer 1

Read through the tutorial and tested it, and it doesn't say two things:

1: You'll need to add a UIViewController to your .storyboard file, and then select it as the Initial Controller.

2: If you wish to change more than just the launch screen, you'll have to go to the project settings and set the "Main Interface" to your corresponding .storyboard.

Once that is done, all you need to do is edit the UIButton/Label/etc connections to your ViewController classes.

EDIT:

For clarification, you can set a UIView as the initial controller by selecting it in it's respective storyboard file, then opening the Attributes Inspector. The option for 'Is Initial Controller" is towards the middle.