Question

I am working on iphone application. I want to make an app that will have some setup views which will appear only on installation and not after the app is installed. How could i do this

Answer 1

You can have things that appear when the app is first launched, but you can’t do anything at installation time per se. What you want to do is something like this in your application delegate:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    static NSString *firstLaunchKey = @"HasLaunchedBefore";

    if ([[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:firstLaunchKey] == YES) {
        // Launch your application as you normally do
    } else {
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:YES forKey:firstLaunchKey];
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];

        // Show your first-launch views here.
    }

    return YES;
}