Is there a way to have a settings bundle ONLY in the debug version of my app?

Question

For production all users of my app will point at the production URL but for dev we have multiple developers and I want to create a settings bundle so the other devs can easily reconfigure their ios devices to point at their own machines. Is there a way to only have the settings bundle in the debug (aka non production) version of the app?

Answer 1

I wrote a wrapper for the NSUserDefaults. In my app delegate I check compiler flags to see if we are in release or debug mode and set the default to the testing vs production environments. Then I use those same compiler flags in my logon view controllers to display/hide a button that allows our test users to select from the different enviroments that are provided via a plist I've included in the build.

So the answer is - Compiler Flags to set the default values, and debug enabled interface prompts to set developer specific values.