Adding A New Resource File To Project

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Adding Regular Resources

The name of the file should be : "categoryName_objectName.fileType" for example: "background_spinImage.png" or "effects_shoot.aif".

Here is a list of the different media types and the type of files that they contain:

Image: any form of image file. Could be a background, animated element, pictures, textures or ...

Sound: any form of sound file. Could be background music, sound effects, interface sounds or ...

Video: all video files.

Databases: any form of stored information. Could be an actual SQL file, text file, Localizable.strings files or ...

Other than the info.plist files, all other resources should be in the "Resources" director, in their corresponding media type directory.

If the resource belongs to a specific group it should be placed in that directory.

If the resource belongs to a specific version of the project then it should be placed in a separate folder (a folder with the name of the version).

The project group structure (the groups in Xcode) must be the same as the project's directory structure, so if you feel that the resource should be in a specific group then make the appropriate changes to the actual directory structure too.

If the resource file is localizable, then there will be a "language.lproj" folder where the file ought to be, (two example of localizable folders are: "english.lproj" and "IT.lproj"). These localizable folders will be added automatically by Xcode, for more information on localizable files and localizing look at: Localizing Resource Files.

If the resource is directly used by a class, it should be mentioned in the class' .h file, for more information look at the header comment in: Adding A New Code File To Project.

Info.plist files should be added to the "Infoplists" folder (in the project's directory) and if there is more than one version of the project it should be in a folder with the version's name.

Interface files should be added to the "NIBs" folder (in the project's directory), all the rules of regular resource files apply.