Anyone that have recently developed any pods for Cocoapods know that resources
should be gathered using the resource_bundles
option. What is quite hard to figure out is how, exactly, to access those
resources once they’re set up in the bundle. It seems obvious now that I got
it working, but I struggle a lot since there wasn’t anything in Stackoverflow or
anywhere else that provided the answer I came up with.
After setting up the resource_bundles, Cocoapods copies the resources found in
a “resources” folder within the Pods project, but none of them are added in the
target’s “Copy bundle resources”. For that reason, I couldn’t access any of the
Pod’s images or xibs in my project. Every time XCode threw me this error:
‘Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘Could not load NIB in bundle:<{PATH_TO_APP}> (loaded)’ with name ‘{VIEW_CONTROLLER_NAME}’
The obvious solution that wasn’t listed anywhere is using the Cocoapods
generated bundle (which the folder actually doesn’t exist) as a NSBundle:
NSString *bundlePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"MyBundle" ofType:@"bundle"];
NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:bundlePath];
MyViewController *viewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyViewController" bundle:bundle];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewController animated:YES];Yes, it’s that simple, that obvious, though it’s not listed anywhere. I believe to be prudent and convenient to write about it in order to help anyone who encounter themselves in the same situation as I did.