Short version: Is it a terrible hack to use the URLs to remote CKAsset? And are they permanent?
I'm building an app that plays sound using AV(Queueu)Player and use CloudKit with CoreData to store the metadata. I was planning to also store the audio assets there, as CKAssets, but it seems like it's not really built for this use case, at least if I want to avoid downloading the files first.
What I mean is, AVPlayer plays audio from URLs, but CloudKit doesn't provide a simple way to get the URL for a remote asset, so it would seem I have to first sync the assets down to the local disk, which is what I want to avoid, I would prefer to stream them.
There is a way to get the URL, but only using CloudKit JS APIs, as described in [1], but is that a hacky workaround or something we can rely on? And are these URLs permanent? Finally, silly question perhaps, but even if the URLs are solid, can I safely stream audio from them?
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35104247/obtaining-ckasset-url-without-downloading-data
