Sound tracks assets

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Guglielmo OP

Created Jan ’22

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I'm writing an app that, among other things, need to be able to play several tracks using AvAudioEngine.

My question is about the best practice for carrying with the App a set of tracks.

I could 'bundle' them with the app but currently they are about 400MB and I think it's too much. I think that this would also significantly slow my deploy times every time I need to run/debug the app.

On my iPad Pro, using the File app, I can see the 'On My iPad' folder and inside that folder I already see some folders used by others App, like Cubasis LE, Acrobat and GarageBand for iOS.

I can't find any example that shows me how to access these locations and which capability I need to add to my app (if any).

Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Guglielmo

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Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’22

Are these tracks a static set of assets which are the same for all users? Perhaps you could use on-demand resources: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/On_Demand_Resources_Guide/index.html

If you want to access existing files in On My iPad, use UIDocumentPickerViewController to allow the user to select files that your app can access: (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidocumentpickerviewcontroller)

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