If I am using jetbrains resources, is it possible ...

# compose-ios

[Joel Denke]

If I am using jetbrains resources, is it possible to somehow copy resource files from other modules than the shared module?
My shared module has api dependency to a core module I would like to provide the resources.
But seems like XCode build process is not copying them.

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

no. it is not implemented yet

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

but im working on that right now

[Joel Denke]

Ah ok, hehe 🙂 is it possible to hack this myself until its publicly available?

[Joel Denke]

It looks like TIvi app doing this but I havent figure out how the heck he getting the font file resources into the build phases:
https://github.com/chrisbanes/tivi/tree/main/common/ui/resources/fonts

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

it works for jvm and android now but with some limitations

[Joel Denke]

Yes I solved it for jvm/Android myself already, its just the iOS part not working. Was thinking using api for the dependency + adding export to the iOS binary should help, but seems not.

[Joel Denke]

Just curious how to get files from a gradle module into the Xcode building process of resources.

[brandonmcansh]

any luck with this @Joel Denke?

[Joel Denke]

Yes, solved it 🙂 Its ugly as hell, but its working 😄

[Joel Denke]

I do it like this:

class AndroidLibraryConventionPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
  override fun apply(target: Project) {
    with(target) {
      with(pluginManager) {
        alias(libs.plugins.android.library)
      }
      configureAndroid()
      android {
        sourceSets["main"].apply {
          manifest.srcFile("src/androidMain/AndroidManifest.xml")
          assets.srcDir("src/commonMain/composeResources/files/assets")
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

The key here is that I am adding a folder I know exist in files/assets, and pretend it should be in Android assets folder.
Its very ugly as Jetbrains doing same for fonts. Where APK contains duplicates of same files.
So having assets/fontfile.ttf and also files/font/fontfile.ttf
Meaning increasing APK size a lot. Maybe a bug, not sure @Konstantin Tskhovrebov?

[Joel Denke]

By doing this I can later on resolve files in Android by doing:

actual class PlatformResource(
    private val path: String
): MyResource {

    @Composable
    override fun absolutePath(): String {
        return LocalContext.current.packageResourcePath + "/" + path
    }

    @Composable
    fun asUri(): Uri {
        val absolutePath = absolutePath()
        val file = File(absolutePath)
        return Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/${file.name}")
    }
}

Note that I am using file.name to get the basename and not the complete path here 😛 I only using this for files NOT image, font or Jetbrains supported ways.
So I sideloading my own resource resolving separate.

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

it is fixed in the latest dev build

[Joel Denke]

Nice, whats fixed in this case? Files folder mirrored into assets or res/raw?
Not sure if should put in res in Android or not. Do you know whats the most accurate way of doing it?

[Joel Denke]

Just so I know what to expect when I update to next release 🙂

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I mean the font duplication is fixed

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

now fonts are copied only in the assets

[Joel Denke]

And for all put into composeResources/files, where are those put in Android? 🙂

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

as java resources

[Joel Denke]

Types NOT being images/bitmaps, fonts etc I mean 🙂

[Joel Denke]

Java resources is not accessible in Android, tried that. If not having a new way of fetching those without using Reflections?

[Joel Denke]

You cannot access files being in root APK Jar properly 🙂 So if using that path, it will be new bugs I think.

[Joel Denke]

Should be in APKroot/assets or APKroot/res/raw if I remember correct.

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

you are suppose to use the Res.readBytes for that

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

there is no an interop between android and compose resources

[Joel Denke]

Yeah I know, hence my solution because Jetbrains not support what I need 🙂 I need Res.getPath or Res.getUri for Android, so I can use the resource in third party libraries refer to my Res.file.video or such.

[Joel Denke]

I think maybe using Java resources with reflections like getResource or getResourceBytes will violate som security things, but not sure to be honest. It feels like it should not be done that way, maybe for desktop JVM but not in Android.
Investigated this a lot as had issues with put files into Java resources in same way Jetbrains compose resources library doing it not accessible as it should.
Another problem is that @Preview not working with any of the Res resouces at all when having it in androidMain.
If you would put fonts, images in the res folder qualifiers it wouldve worked.

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

Res.getUri is in my backlog 👌

[Joel Denke]

Nice! 🙂 I hope I will be able to use that then, being able do like:
Media3Item.fromUri(Res.video.getUri)) and such, and dito for NsUrl in iOS 🙂

[Joel Denke]

Until that happening, I use this hack/work around in Android / iOS 🙂