[CB-12668] support arbitrary creation of resources in the Asset Catalog

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.4
• Fix Version/s: cordova-ios@4.5.1
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Labels: backlog cordova-ios
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Josh Sharpe
• Created: 18/Apr/17 13:39
• Updated: 23/Mar/19 16:34
• Resolved: 23/Mar/19 16:34

Description

A handful of plugins* recommend the use of an image/asset out of the Asset Catalog. It would be great if we could create those just by setting tags in config.xml, similar to <icon> and <splash> that then generate the resource in Xcode.

My specific use case is to add a "back" image to be used by 'cordova-plugin-themeablebrowser'. I can do this manually by:

• opening xCode
• Click on Project -> Resources -> Image.xcassets
• Click '+' in the bottom task bar -> New Image Set
• Rename the new Set 'back'
• Manually drag and drop 3 images into xcode

To be clear - I'm not asking that cordova produce different sized images as I believe that's out of scope. I just need it to build the new resource in xcode referencing certain files on disk with tags like:

<platform name='ios'>
  <resource name='back' src='my_resources/[e-mail]' target='1x' />
  <resource name='back' src='my_resources/[e-mail]' target='2x' />
  <resource name='back' src='my_resources/[e-mail]' target='3x' />
</platform>

• Example plugins:
  https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase
  https://github.codifferent m/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-push
  https://github.com/initialxy/cordova-plugin-themeablebrowser

*Bonus!*
It'd be extra great, since I'm sure some folks want this, if cordova could add sound files to be used by firebase/push plugins that can leverage those if they exist, but I'm not sure how those get set up in xcode such that phonegap-plugin-push can use them.