I’m working with a rather large, asset-heavy project for iOS and I can’t help but notice Xcode copying hundreds of resources (textures, spritesheets, sound files, etc..) that haven’t changed at all since the last time I built to the device. It makes coding really, really slow when each build takes 2-4 minutes to pop up on the device.
Is there a way to get Xcode to recognize that it’s doing redundant things or write a script that allows it to be more intelligent about how it transfers resources over to the device?
PS I realize that there may not be any built in ‘appending’ functionality for an app. I hope that isn’t the case.
You can try add another target to the project and name it “without resources”. Exclude all heavy resources from this target. First time you need start app with all resources target, next time use “without resources” target. If you added something to the project you should use first target.