Question

IOS iphone app development – how do you hide files within resources directory?

If someone wanted to pull the assets from a resource file say copyrighted images or mp3’s would they not just need to right click app icon to show package contents.From there they can just open png’s and mp3’s from the bundle – which doesn’t offer much digital rights protection.

I am hoping there is a toggle so that these items can be hidden.

Many thanks

Magnus

Answer 1

There really isn’t a way to hide files, but an option would be to encrypt them.

You can encode file data in base64 strings, which can be encrypted by an algorithm of your choice.
When you wish to get a resource get the corresponding text file, decrypt it and recreate it (the approach is similar to serializing, but with an additional encryption step).
This way, in your app bundle you will only be storing text files containing meaningless string characters.

Not sure how safe this way is, but it’s an option.

Hope this helps, Vlad.