Create Subfolders In Resource Directory

Let's start with a basic question - do you really need the resources in subdirectories within the deployed application? It's one thing to keep resources all nice and organized into groups within Xcode. It's another to want or need such organization in the deployed application.

This exact question was asked recently and the answer I recall from that post is - don't worry about it. Keep it neat in Xcode but there is no reason to care if it's all flat in the deployed app.

But that's why I asked the first question. Does your app depend on resources being in subdirectories at runtime?

I don't remember how I did it, but what you want is a blue folder in xcode instead of the yellow ones. Try dragging the folder from the finder into the groups&files in xcode, then when it asks what you want to do with the dropped folder you tell it "create folder references for any added folders".

To give you one example: my app has 2D grid with tiles that are generated by a Python script outside Xcode and then placed in the resource directory before compilation. Each tile as 8 distinct files, so I group them in a directory.

The app itself spiders through all the tiles at startup to create a data structure for each tile.

It could also have been solved by having a certain filename or create a plist with all the tiles, but this just was the most convenient way to do.

BTW, to the original poster: Xcode won't pick up dependencies on this. If you change files inside the directory and it's not a known file type, it won't update already present files in the build directory, so you'll have to a make clean before compiling. This has bitten me multiple times...