How can I view XIB from an app store application?
I downloaded a nicely designed app and unpacked its contents. I would like to look at the NIB to see how the application is being combined. I renamed NIBs to XIBs, but Interface Builder won't open them ("Interface Builder was unable to detect the PageView.xib type"). Is there any way I can get it to open the file. Will I be able to see anything without the original project?
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The short answer is: No.
You cannot just rename nib to xib, these are different formats. Feathers is a package containing serialized objects in binary form, xib is an XML representation of serialized objects.
Longer answer:
Binaries once contained the information needed for Interface Builder to render them (specifically designable.nib), but since they are now primarily used for distribution (as opposed to development), this information is removed by Xcode during application build when xib is compiled into a tip.
It is technically possible to instantiate a tip and infer most of the information from it, but it's non-trivial and won't lead to anything like using an interface builder.
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