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How to use Xcode to open decrypted IPA content

I have an decrypted IPA file. How to use Xcode to open the contents of this file and make code changes to it?

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IPA is just a zip file containing the Payload folder, which in turn contains a set of applications. As such, there is no code in IPA - just a compiled executable. You can unzip it and look in the Payload folder, but all you see is the executable code. You could parse the code (do not ask me how - I never tried this), but if you need to do this, I wonder why you do not have access to the source in the first place ...

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You cannot get the source from the IPA file. This is an executable file. See “Stack” and “Overflow” Question. Is it possible to reverse engineer my iPhone application? .

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Xcode compiles applications from Objective-C into machine code, then they are packed with all other resources (images, feathers) into an IPA file. Thus, you cannot return it to the source code, only machine code.

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