"Cannot Preview in this file - Failed to launch [App Name]"

Question

I am trying to play around with swiftUI in Xcode 11 and macOS Catalina. BUT After creating a new Project, there is a boiler plate code with a Text that says hello World. I want to have a live preview of this simple welcome message in the canvas by the side of the code.

When i hit the resume button : It says :

Cannot Preview in this file - Failed to launch [App Name]

I've tried hitting the diagnostic button that generated a report to send it to APPLE saying:

[FailedToLaunchError(url: file:///Users/naive/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/first_swiftUI-dymizjogcbtouhclgjhhefagmcqo/Build/Intermediates.noindex/Previews/first_swiftUI/Products/Debug-iphoneos/first_swiftUI.app, underlying: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10661 "(null)" UserInfo={_LSLine=3554, _LSFunction=_LSOpenStuffCallLocal}, failureCategory: UVFoundation.FailureCategory.infrastructureFailure) ]

Here's the code, It is the default code that comes with new project created with Xcode 11 and SwiftUI option checked:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView : View {
    var body: some View {
        Text("Hello World")
    }
}

#if DEBUG
struct ContentView_Previews : PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        ContentView()
    }
}
#endif

I expect the canvas to show up and display live preview of my code. The canvas is not showing up !!

There are two warning messages generated :

:0: warning: imported declaration 'UITableViewDiffableDataSourceCellProvider' could not be mapped to 'UITableViewDiffableDataSourceReference.CellProvider'

:0: warning: imported declaration 'UICollectionViewDiffableDataSourceCellProvider' could not be mapped to 'UICollectionViewDiffableDataSourceReference.CellProvider'

other than that, My iPad 11"with iPadOS beta runs the app, The simulator is working as well

I got it fixed by assigning command line tools to xcode 11, it was set to previous version of xcode 10. Preferences > location > commandLine tools [drop down] > select xcode 11 — Parajuli Roman
Two suggestions? (I didn't have this issue but found your question and answer to be potentially valuable to others who may have the same issue.) #1. Reformat your question with good markdown. The errors/warnings are simple text and are hard to read. #2. Post your solution as an answer instead of a comment. (That's perfectly okay to do!) I'd definitely upvote it. — dfd
Thank you @dfd I filled up the text boxes shown by stackoverflow with my questions as they appear sequentially in a VStack — Parajuli Roman
I edited your question, placing "markdown quotes around 4 passages. One last comment - with regards to the two warnings your received, be very aware that you are using a "beta 1" version of something brand new, and as noted in the link, "For example, if you make a mistake in your SwiftUI code you will often get almost incomprehensible error messages." Hopefully this will improve with future betas. wwdcbysundell.com/2019/interviews/paul-hudson — dfd

Brett Brett · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-18T22:39:32

I encountered this UVFoundation.FailureCategory.infrastructureFailure when starting an iOS app with SwiftUI and then checking the Mac target in the project properties (i.e., using Catalyst to create a cross-platform app). When I did this the default device changed to "My Mac" and preview stopped working, yielding this error in the diagnostic window.

Preview for the Mac target doesn't seem to be supported—you have to select some iOS target ("Generic iOS Device" works just fine for me). Tested on Mojave beta 5 with Xcode 11 beta 5. From the Xcode 11 beta 5 release notes: "Xcode 11 doesn’t support working with SwiftUI in a Mac Catalyst app. (41416222, 51201699)"

"My Mac" selected, it doesn't work!

Working with "Generic iOS device" selected.

"Cannot Preview in this file - Failed to launch [App Name]"

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