How to run app without storyboard? - ios

Question

New to Xcode 8 and Swift 3. Any help would be much appreciated. I've been doing as much research as possible but I'm still having trouble running my app without using the storyboard. Seems I get a black screen when I launch it in the simulator due to:
Terminating app due to uncaught exception
'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Could not load NIB in bundle: 'NSBundle </User...........................app> (loaded)' with name '`main`''
*** First throw call stack:
(
0 CoreFoundation 0x0000000104099b0b __exceptionPreprocess + 171
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000101379141 objc_exception_throw + 48
2 CoreFoundation 0x0000000104102625 +[NSException raise:format:] + 197
3 UIKit 0x0000000102676e74 -[UINib instantiateWithOwner:options:] + 501
4 UIKit 0x0000000102679614 -[NSBundle(UINSBundleAdditions) loadNibNamed:owner:options:] + 222
5 UIKit 0x000000010226f7ea -[UIApplication _loadMainNibFileNamed:bundle:] + 75
6 UIKit 0x000000010226fe13 -[UIApplication _loadMainInterfaceFile] + 260
7 UIKit 0x000000010226e4b6 -[UIApplication _runWithMainScene:transitionContext:completion:] + 1407
8 UIKit 0x000000010226b7f3 -[UIApplication workspaceDidEndTransaction:] + 182
9 FrontBoardServices 0x00000001057845f6 __FBSSERIALQUEUE_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 24
10 FrontBoardServices 0x000000010578446d -[FBSSerialQueue _performNext] + 186
11 FrontBoardServices 0x00000001057847f6 -[FBSSerialQueue _performNextFromRunLoopSource] + 45
12 CoreFoundation 0x000000010403fc01 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
13 CoreFoundation 0x00000001040250cf __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 527
14 CoreFoundation 0x00000001040245ff __CFRunLoopRun + 911
15 CoreFoundation 0x0000000104024016 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 406
16 UIKit 0x000000010226a08f -[UIApplication _run] + 468
17 UIKit 0x0000000102270134 UIApplicationMain + 159
18 testappfour 0x0000000100da2c57 main + 55
19 libdyld.dylib 0x000000010501b65d start + 1
20 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
)
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
AppDelegate.swift
import UIKit
#UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
window?.rootViewController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: ViewController())
return true
}
ViewController.swift
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}

Answer 1

1) In project settings remove storyboard for 'Main Storyboard' setting
2) There is a typo in your code. View controller class is named ViewController but you instantiate ViewContoller ('r' is missed).
After doing those both things your code works well for me and project runs:

Answer 2

Check General>Deployment Info> Main Interface has still pointing to Main.storyboard? If yes remove it.