Question

I’m unable to get Xcode to copy over www resources to my PhoneGap based iPhone app. I considered using Git submodules, but since the app has to work on different platforms (iPhone, Android, etc) and has to be branded differently (images, css, and small changes to some files), it does not solve the complete problem.

I ended with a solution where I created an external core www folder and created symlinks for every file from the different projects. If a file needed special attention on a platform or for a branding requirement, then I could simply replace that instance of a symlink with an actual file.

This all would work like a charm, but for some reason Xcode for does not copy the symlinked resources over to the phone. Does anyone have any idea how to make this work? Or a solid alternative. Even if this takes me a day to fix.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This solution worked perfectly to pull in the symlinks on build. Using this method you can build Phonegap solutions for all platforms and have them branded differently with the absolute minimum code duplication.

In short, create a common directory that contains all your phonegap www contents, and then symlink this from your different projects (platform differences or branding differences). For building on Xcode, add the following to your project’s run script:

rsync -pvtrlL --cvs-exclude \
    $PROJECT_DIR/../Resources* \
    $BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$CONTENTS_FOLDER_PATH

Note: You also need to dereference symlinks if you build for BlackBerry.