iOS 8 - Swift - Xcode 6 Beta - working without interface builder (no nibs and no storyboard)

Question

I have been searching a lot in the inter webs and Stackoverflow. Unfortunately there doesn\'t seem to be much info around the new Xcode version, iOS 8 specifically with Swif

Answer 1

The method outlined by codester is a good solution, but (in Xcode 6.0.1) the final step - deleting "Main" from the Main Interface section - would not work for me; I would delete the string, but as soon as I navigated away from that page or tried to run the app, the field would be repopulated with "Main". I ended up having to manually delete the "UIMainStoryboardFile" key/value entry in the applications Info.plist.

Answer 2

In my opinion storyBoards are awesome. They make the development cycle easy and quick. But if you do not want them you can create a Single View Application template.

Delete the storyBoard and Follow these steps

1) Go to Your Target

2) Deployment Info

3) Main Interface -> Delete Main and keep field empty

It will not load a storyboard or any view. Now it's your responsibility to load Window and create rootViewControllers and views programmatically