Getting Back Up to Speed with Objective-C in 2025

I’ve mostly moved away from using Objective-C over the years. While it still appears in some of the projects I work on, it’s been quite some time since I last had to work on a feature written entirely in Objective-C. These days, I typically encounter it when integrating a new feature written in Swift into an older codebase. Recently, however, I needed to brush up on Objective-C for a job I was interviewing for....

April 3, 2025 · Bartosz Kunat

Creating a New Objective-C Project in Xcode 16

Update: 26/03/25 It looks like Objective-C is still an option in the default iOS project template. You can access it after setting the Interface to “Storyboard”. I hadn’t realized these dropdown menus were interconnected. All credit goes to Douglas for spotting this! tl;dr use macOS → Application → Game or Command Line Tool Recently I wanted to refresh my memory on Objective-C. My first thought was to open Xcode, create a new project with language set to Objective-C and play with it....

March 25, 2025 · Bartosz Kunat