How to create a new “templates” category on Xcode 4 and use my own file templates there?

Question

I would like to start using my own templates for iOS applications. I don\'t want any significant changes, but simpler things like

• add/remove some boilerplate code<

Answer 1

This blog post by borealkiss has detailed instructions. For starters:

If you add your own templates, the place you should use is under the following path:

~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/

The problem is that it is quite hard to create a custom template. For example, to copy and paste the built-in template to your place will not show up the template on Xcode 4 until you manually change its identifier in TemplateInfo.plist.

Answer 2

I just found this article from Bob McCune "Creating Custom Xcode 4 File Templates" that is exactly what I needed, so I put it here for reference.