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How to separate android & ios resources after build

Robby_S_1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:54:29 GMT

Hi Guys, I am using XDK to develop and build my cordova app. Everything works fine until I find the size of the apk/ipa file is larger than I expected.

After I unpacked the apk/ipa, I found that all the resources are in the www folder. The resources, I mean the icons, splashscreen images for both android and ios, cer file, provisioning files, etc. I tried to relocate these files under projects tab in XDK, but the system tell me i should put the files in the source directory (www in my case).

So I am totally lost. How can I separate these? I don't want android build to include ios icons and splashscreens, and BTW why my ios production provisioning file is also in the www folder in ipa and apk?

I have attached several screenshots for your reference. Please help me as I am struggled for almost a week on this.

Thanks in advance.

It is a good question. I

Hamilton_Tenório_da_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:28:25 GMT

It is a good question. I tought about it some days ago...

Currently all assets for your

John_H_Intel2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:23:35 GMT

Currently all assets for your app must be in the www/ folder. The provisioning profile is include with your apk because its in the www/ folder. We are planning to implement (no time frame) a way that your assets for icons/splashscreens do not need to be packaged with your app. If you do not want certain files included with a particular build, move them out of the www directory, upload, then move them back in.

Quote:JOHN H. (Intel) wrote:

Robby_S_1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:03:25 GMT

JOHN H. (Intel) wrote:

Currently all assets for your app must be in the www/ folder. The provisioning profile is include with your apk because its in the www/ folder. We are planning to implement (no time frame) a way that your assets for icons/splashscreens do not need to be packaged with your app. If you do not want certain files included with a particular build, move them out of the www directory, upload, then move them back in.

Thanks John for the answer, I really hope there is a better way to handle that. Now I have to separate this into two projects and update both before build, then it defer the purpose of the IDE, right? Looking forward to see the update.

By reading the Android build

Luca_F_ — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:30:55 GMT

By reading the Android build log of one app of mine, I found the following workaround:
place your icons and splashscreens into a www subfolder whose name starts with a "dot".

In my case, the folder name is ".sys" (read "dot sys") and the folder structure is

myXDKProject\www\.sys\res\icons\android\<icons.png>
                                              |        \ios\<icons.png>
                                              |        \windows\<icons.png>
                                              |
                                              \screen\android\<splashscreens.png>
                                                          \ios\<splashscreens.png>
                                                         \windows\<splashscreens.png>

On Win system, to create such a folder you have to use the command prompt:
prompt>cd myXDKProject
prompt>cd www
prompt>mkdir .sys

This trick doesn't work for iOS provisioning file, but you could place it inside a dummy local plugin
folder, that should be automatically stripped away after plugins and provisioning file have been copied by the build system.
Important note about mobileprovisioning: this trick worked till XDK 1621; with latest XDK versions (XDK 18xy), I'm no more able to remove
plugins source code from built packages, so I always find full plugin source code and the provisioning file too
inside them (for details, see my post here https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/544718).

Regards
CtwDev

This is exactly the sort of

Barry_Johnson — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:47:03 GMT

This is exactly the sort of feature it would be great to see built in to the XDK along with other build assistance & management features.

Quote:Luca F. wrote:

Robby_S_1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 04:13:08 GMT

Luca F. wrote:

By reading the Android build log of one app of mine, I found the following workaround:
place your icons and splashscreens into a www subfolder whose name starts with a "dot".

In my case, the folder name is ".sys" (read "dot sys") and the folder structure is

myXDKProject\www\.sys\res\icons\android\<icons.png>
                                              |        \ios\<icons.png>
                                              |        \windows\<icons.png>
                                              |
                                              \screen\android\<splashscreens.png>
                                                          \ios\<splashscreens.png>
                                                         \windows\<splashscreens.png>

On Win system, to create such a folder you have to use the command prompt:
prompt>cd myXDKProject
prompt>cd www
prompt>mkdir .sys

This trick doesn't work for iOS provisioning file, but you could place it inside a dummy local plugin
folder, that should be automatically stripped away after plugins and provisioning file have been copied by the build system.
Important note about mobileprovisioning: this trick worked till XDK 1621; with latest XDK versions (XDK 18xy), I'm no more able to remove
plugins source code from built packages, so I always find full plugin source code and the provisioning file too
inside them (for details, see my post here https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/544718).

Regards
CtwDev

thanks Luca, that can save me for a while :)

Meantime, let's wait for the official solution.