I am trying to do this, and running into problems. The parent project needs to access the class SettingsViewController from the child project. I have put the child project
I know this is very old but might be helpful for others.
You need to setup the included project in Target Dependencies in "Build Phases" to get the included projet to be compiled and you also should add the static library of the included project in the "Link Binary with Libraries".
Click on your Target->Build Phases and set these up.