Question

I’m trying to convert my iPhone app to a “universal” app with the following steps. The app’s first screen has a navigation bar.

1. Download and install Xcode 3.2.3 and iPhone SDK 4.
2. Open an existing Xcode project of an iPhone app, select the target and choose “Update Current Target for iPad…” from the File menu.
3. Select “One Universal application” in the popup that appears.

Now when I start the app in an iPad or the iPad simulator, the navigation bar is displayed all right but the right bar button item just doesn’t work. I’ve confirmed that the rightBarButtonItem is enabled,

(gdb) p (int)[[[firstController navigationItem] rightBarButtonItem] isEnabled]
$2 = 1

searched high and low for a solution, but no clue so far.

Answer 1

Turns out it’s a known issue documented in the iPhone SDK Release Notes for iOS 4:

When selecting a target and then
choosing "Update Current Target for
iPad," new nib files are created but
not converted to iPad.
To fix this
problem:

• Either select each nib file
  that was copied, open it in Interface
  Builder, select the "File -> Create
  iPad Version" menu option, then select
  "Save As…" for the document, and save
  over the nib file.

• Or invoke this
  command in the terminal from the
  project’s folder:

  find Resources-iPad -type f -name "*.xib" -exec ibtool --sdk "" --change-target-runtime IBIPadFramework {} --write {} \;

I hope posting it here will be of help to others with similar problems.