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Re: director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:17:51 GMT

great news!! many thanks for this info!!!!!

Re: director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:10:32 GMT

Editing a separate info.plist to reference your app icons is actually a better approach than altering the defaults within Otto.app.

The procedure is simple:

Put your unique app icons in the same folder as your Director file. You can name these icons whatever you wish, or name them the same as the defaults in Otto.app, i.e. "projector_72x72.png" and "projector_57x57.png", or you can give them unique names.

Copy the info.plist file to the same folder as your Director file.

If you have given your icons unique names, open the info.plist file in Xcode and find the "Icon files" key. Edit "Item 0" and change the entry to the name of the 72x72 pixel png icon. Edit "Item 1" and change the entry to the name of the 57x57 pixel png icon.

Save the info.plist file.

Within Director, open Publish Settings and in the "Files" tab, enable "Copy linked and dependent files." Click on "Add Dependent Files" and navigate to the folder with your unique icons. Select each one and make sure that the radio button is checked for each one.

In the iOS tab, select the "Info Plist Path" option and navigate to the location of your edited info.plist. Select the info.plist file in the dialog box and click "Choose."

Publish your iOS app and test. The icons should now have been embedded within your iOS app bundle.

You may be able to put the icons in an "images" folder within your app folder structure, but you will still have to use the "Copy linked and dependent files" and "Add Dependent Files" options to have that folder and the icons bundled within your iOS app.

If you intend to develop apps for the app store, you may need additional icons at larger sizes.

For reference: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystem ProgrammingGUide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html

and for icons:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/ IconsImages/IconsImages.html

Re: director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:41 GMT

ok!!! it worked!!! after copying my icons into the package of "otto.app" and renaming them to projector_72x72.png and projector_57x57.png, i got the result after itunes copy procedure on the ipad: the icons are showing up!

as soon as i have the complete precedure, i will write down a short tutorial for all the poor guys here with the same problem to generate a apple store compatible info.plist with the icons, splashscreen and other important infos for bringing the app into the store etcpp.

Re: director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:30:46 GMT

great idea. many many thanks - i think its the only thing i didnt check yesterday .... ill check that out. but i hope there is another "better" way for this...

Re: director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:24:35 GMT

A quick-and-dirty way is to paste the icons directly into Otto.app. Ctrl click to Show Package Contents.

director 12 IOS publishing icon plist

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:59:03 GMT

hi,

im checking out director 12 as im using director since version 3!!!:-)

for me the ios publishing feature is extremly interesting and i am experienced in building ios apps, but i still own a lot of old director projects, so the idea is for me to convert them to ios.

it all seem to work pretty good but ...

ive tried to change the "info.plist" and placed my new icons in the same folder of the info.plist to get some new icons for my ios app, but my own icons are not showing up at all. i did the simple text changes as usual when i create ios apps in xcode or for mac os apps but its not working.

any more changes to do inside the plist?

the app only shows up icons on the ipad (for example) when if i use the original plist file within the "projector ios resources" and the original names inside this files (example: "projector_72x72.png") folder i can see the standard grey director icons.

as i cant find these grey standard icon pngs in any folder, they seem to be embedded into an icns file and then extracted etc.

but after trying a lot of thing no solution in sight.

has any body any experience in this problem or an idea how to change the icons and can post a litte helpful tutorial?

thank you for the idea.

ralph