Getting bundle file references / paths at app launch

Question

Suppose I have an arbitrary set of files included in the Main App Bundle. I would like to fetch the file URLs for those at launch and store them somewhere. Is this possible using NSFileManager? The documentation is unclear in that regard.

Note: I only need the file URLs, I do not need to access the actual files.

Answer 1

You can get the URL of a file in the main bundle using

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"SomeFile" ofType:@"jpeg"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];

You can write this URL to, for example, a property list file in the Documents directory:

NSString *docsDir = [NSSearchForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentsDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *plistPath = [docsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Files.plist"];
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[url absoluteString] forKey:@"SomeFile.jpeg"];
[dict writeToFile:plistPath atomically:YES];

If you don't know the names of the files and you just want to list all the files in the bundle, use

NSArray *files = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] error:NULL];
for (NSString *fileName in files) {
    NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:fileName ofType:nil];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
    // do something with `url`
}