Applications Are Expected to Have a Root View Controller At the End of Application Launch

Applications are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch

I had this same problem. Check your main.m. The last argument should be set to the name of the class that implements the UIApplicationDelegate protocol.

retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, @"AppDelegate");

Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch error when running a project with Xcode 7, iOS 9

From your error message:

Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch

How old is this "old" project? If it's more than a few years, do you still have:

[window addSubview:viewController.view];

You should instead replace it with:

[window setRootViewController:viewController];

Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch - even with all known issues fixed

I ran into exactly the same thing trying to add a UITableView to a single-view app. Instead, create a default Master-Detail Application project (file->new->target->...) and see the AppDelegate's implementation of didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
// Override point for customization after application launch.

MDMasterViewController *masterViewController = [[MDMasterViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MDMasterViewController" bundle:nil];
self.navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:masterViewController];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navigationController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}

Rather than directly setting your view controller as the window's rootViewController, you need to create a navigation controller init'ed with your view controller for initWithRootViewController, then set that nav controller as the window's rootViewController. (Notice you also have to squirrel away that nav controller in a property so it doesn't get destructed).

Application windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of application launch error only on iPad

Change the following line:

[_window addSubview:[_navigationController view]];

to:

_window.rootViewController = _navigationController;

or, if you need iOS 3 compatibility:

if ([_window respondsToSelector:@selector(setRootViewController:)]) {
    _window.rootViewController = _navigationController;
} else {
    [_window addSubview:_navigationController.view];
}

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