I have an app which is 50MB+ in size. It is filled with image sets. Since the app has IAP I would like to download image sets on demand (when the user buys one image set). In order to do that I am trying to use apple's hosted content option.
I created a new project with the correct name/bundle ID and configured everything in iTunes conect. In order to deliver these IAP image sets I used a Asset catalog for every IAP product. However, when I want to archieve the product Xcode gives me the following message:
/Users/MyCompany/Desktop/Programming projects/Tutorials/Vegetables1/Vegetables1/Media.xcassets: The output directory "/Users/MyCompany/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Vegetables1-dzbpbuiozhaliyezacnqehsgubdt/Build/Intermediates/ArchiveIntermediates/Vegetables1/InstallationBuildProductsLocation/Library/InAppPurchaseContent/Vegetables1/Contents" does not exist.
The Media.xcassets is empty... I didn't add any picture. No matter what I do it keeps giving me this error.
The Media.xcasset is correctly added in the Copy Bundle Resources and is visible via Finder.
I could add all the images manually without the Asset catalog. I don't think this a good approach but if it doesn't work I will have no other choice.
Asset catalogs are resources in your bundle, so you can't modify or add them at runtime. You also can't reference a resource that isn't available at compile time. You'll either have to prepackage all IAPs and unlock them via purchase (using asset catalogs if you'd like), or package your IAP content in a different format (probably a zip with raw images and a dictionary) so you can read them from a local directory outside the bundle.