Here’s a handy controller for you to make it easier to both do the Apple-mandated thing and put your app’s preferences in Settings.app where no user can ever find them, and also in the app where users expect: InAppSettings!
InAppSettings provides a view controller that displays the application’s Settings.bundle as it appears in the iPhone settings. Allowing the same preferences in app and in the iPhone settings.
Anything that reduces code duplication is always good, indeed.
h/t: iPhoneFlow!
UPDATE: And as so strangely often seems to happen, there’s been almost simultaneously released a similarly targeted project called InAppSettingsKit. The no doubt scrupulously fair and balanced InAppSettings author has a detailed comparison here.
UPDATE 2: And if you feel like adding URL actions visible in InAppSettingsKit but not in Settings.app, check out the DDOpenURLSpecifier extension!
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