What's the difference between "Info.plist" on my navigator panel and the "Custom iOS Target Properties"?

Question

Hi i'm new to iOS development. There are many situations that we have to config our Info.plist. Most of the tutorial tell me to modify the Info.plist in my navigator panel. Just like this one (Info.plist).

However, modify this file doesn't work for me. Then i found another solution. Project -> Target -> Info, and you can find a "Custom iOS Target Properties". You can also set your property list here, and this work just fine for me.

So i'm wondering what's the difference between these two Info.plist? Since most of the tutorial point to the first one (which doesn't work for me), I think there must be something wrong. What should i do to make it work again? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

They're same, the Info.plist is the resource, and the 2nd one just refer to it. If you tried to delete the Info.plist file from your project, you cannot see the "Custom iOS Target Properties" you mentioned anymore, it'll show sth like:

Information from info.plist not available. File may not exist at specific path.

I think you must did sth wrong in Info.plist that lead your setting won't work.

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Btw, make sure the target's info.plist refer to the right one that you want. Cause generally, we'll have Dev, Beta, etc schemes for our project, and they own different plist files as well.

So make sure the INFOPLIST_FILE refer to the right one in settings:

Answer 2

Info.plist is equal to Custom iOS Target Properties^[About]

1. Make sure that Build Settings -> Info.plist File points to a necessary file(path location)
2. Sometimes Xcode doesn't update Custom iOS Target Properties after changing Info.plist. You can restart Xcode as a variant