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Asked: 2026-05-18T12:07:54+00:00

I have a project A. This produces a product that’s working and already submitted

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I have a project A. This produces a product that’s working and already submitted to the app store etc. Now, I’d like to create a new project, let’s call it project B, and I want B to be based on A. Obviously B will add more UI and behavior on top of A.

After doing some research, the only option seems to be using cross-project referencing, because I’d like to reuse Project A’s XIBs, images etc in Project B. Am I correct in assuming that cross-project referencing should work in that scenario?

Well I’m having some serious problems in getting this thing working. I’d like to achieve project level reuse. In Java or in .NET this wouldn’t even be a consideration, the technology allows that. Because iPhone doesn’t support frameworks, I think the developers are pushed towards more primitive approaches like code duplication.

So, how can I tackle this problem. How can I create my Project B, based on Project A (including XIBs, images, etc)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If A and B are so similar perhaps you could consider simply creating a new build target; this would give you a single project with target A and target B. Both targets would have access to any of the resources in the project.

    If you have a fair bit of shared code then you can create a static library; iOS doesn’t support dynamic linking to user-generated libraries, but it supports static linking just fine. This would make the cross-project dependencies useful, because you could have project B reference library A from project A and build it as a dependency.

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