iOS: Access app-info.plist variables in code

iphone objective-c ios ipad info.plist

I am working on a Universal app & would like to access the values stored in app-info.plist file in my code.

Reason: I instantiate a UIViewController dynamically from a storyboard using:

UIStoryboard* storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard_iPhone" bundle:nil];
self = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ExampleViewController"];

Now, having the storyboard name @"MainStoryboard_iPhone" above is ugly.

I want to do something like:

UIStoryboard* storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:appInfo.mainStoryboardBaseNamePhone bundle:nil];
self = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ExampleViewController"];

where appInfo can perhaps be an NSDictionary of all values in app-info.plist

Damo

Attributes from the info.plist for your project are directly accessible by the following...

[[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:key_name];

For example to get the version number you might do the following

NSString *appVersion = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleVersion"];

There is a gotcha in that the version number now has two attributes in the info.plist - but you get the idea? If you view your info.plist as source code (right click the info.plist - select Open As) then you will get to see all the various key names you can use.

As mentioned by @Answerbot in this post:stackoverflow.com/a/4059118/1210822 : "CFBundleVersion has been repurposed to be Build and Version is CFBundleShortVersionString", so now for retrieving the version number from plist, we need to use: NSString *version = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleShortVersionString"];

for 11.3 it doesn't work, because NSBundle was renamed and the new Bundle has it not included yet. Do xou have a Update?

If I have an Enterprise iOS app that is distributed via the web, can I add key/value pairs in the PLIST file, and subsequently read those values from the app at the time of download?

how we can update value of CFBundleVersion from the AppDelegate.m?

Maverick

Swift 4+ syntax for Damo's solution

Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "KEY_NAME")

Example

let appVersion = Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleVersion")

For beginners like me, Bundle requires import SystemConfiguration

rckoenes

Well you can acces the info.plist very easly :

Getting the name of the storyboard:

NSString *storyboard  = [[NSBundle mainBundle].infoDictionary objectForKey:@"UIMainStoryboardFile"];

Not sure wether it will detect if it is in a iPad and it should use the UIMainStoryboardFile~ipad key instated.

XCode automatically populates the key 'UIMainStoryboardFile' with the iPhone / iPad Storyboard files, depending on the device :)

Stunner

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"YOURPLISTNAME" ofType: @"plist"]; 
NSMutableDictionary *dictplist =[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];

You can also use NSDictionary: NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path];

svth

You can also use the infoDictionary method on NSBundle:

NSDictionary *infoPlistDict = [[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary];
NSString *version = infoPlistDict[@"CFBundleVersion"];

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