UIViewController Is Not Working - ios

Question

This behavior is very odd. Every time I create a new project in Xcode 5.0.2 I cannot get it to work fully. Once the Single View Application template (or another) is created - everything seems OK: I have my delegate, storyboards and ViewController. They all run successfully and I can even see newly added UIView's in my Simulator.
Her is my generic code for ViewController:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface ViewController : UIViewController{
UIView *container;
}
#property (nonatomic,retain) IBOutlet UIView *container;
#end
#import "ViewController.h"
#interface ViewController (){}
#end
#implementation ViewController
#synthesize container;
- (void)viewDidLoad{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSLog(#"App loaded");
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
}
#end
But once I add properties to this controller class and synthesize them, the screen turns black during app running and no views or whatever was added before is ever seen anymore. Just a blank black color screen.
Where is the problem? Please note:
I checked Info*.plist and it points to Storyboard correctly
In delegate my didFinishLaunchingWithOptions returns YES
ViewController has a Initial View Controller checked and is the only one in the storyboard
viewDidLoad prints NSLog message successfully even though nothing is shown
What to check?
Here is a link to the project

Answer 1

A view controller is just that, a controller. The UIViewController's view property is what is visible on the screen (assuming you added it to the screen at some point, storyboard, programatic, xib, etc...)
Check the UIViewcontroller.view.superview. You should be able to get close to what you want.

Answer 2

The view controller properties thing is a complete red herring.
You're using a storyboard for your app, which has all of the relevant details in it. Then, in your app delegate, you've added a load of code to load in a new instance of the view controller and set it as your app's root view controller.
You don't need to do this if you have a storyboard. Just return YES from applicationDidFinishLaunching.. (which was originally the case, since you included the git history in the download!). The initial view controller from your storyboard will already be loaded up. What you've done is to basically ignore the storyboard.