I made a thread about this a while back, they started rejecting apps for unnecesary downloading to the Documents Directory, you need to save it to the NSLibraryDirectory. So it's not alot of code change, but that should be it
Greetz, Noxx
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1370644/
Tada!
I've did some research and went through the guidelines, before they wanted you to copy it to NSDOcumentsDirectory, but that gets backupped to iCloud, to avoid syncing several gigs of people downloading PDF's etc in their app, Apple is rejecting applications who do "unnessecary" downloads to the Documents folder, in other meanings, if you can easily redownload it, or store it somewhere else, like the library.
They did a 'silent' change on that since iOS5.
Also, Apple gave you a small hint like this:I totally agree up to the point the Apple Review process is a real HELL.
So about the rejecting, I totally feel with you, and indeed, you can get lucky, there was no clear communication to developers, and I had to find out the hard way too. I hope I made some of that clear to you so you can finish it in another app
What I did was copy on startup everything to NSLibrary, and no troubles with that neither
"For more information, please see Technical Q&A 1719: How do I prevent files from being backed up to iCloud and iTunes?."
Maybe you should check that out and head back!
Gz, Noxx
- (NSString *)applicationDocumentsDirectory {
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSURL *pathURL= [NSURL fileURLWithPath:documentsDirectory];
[self addSkipBackupAttributeToItemAtURL:pathURL];
return documentsDirectory;
}
- (BOOL)addSkipBackupAttributeToItemAtURL:(NSURL *)URL
{ if (NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey) {
assert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: [URL path]]);
NSError *error = nil;
BOOL success = [URL setResourceValue: [NSNumber numberWithBool: YES]
forKey: NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey error: &error];
if(!success){
NSLog(@"Error excluding %@ from backup %@", [URL lastPathComponent], error);
}
return success;
}
else {
assert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: [URL path]]);
const char* filePath = [[URL path] fileSystemRepresentation];
const char* attrName = "com.apple.MobileBackup";
u_int8_t attrValue = 1;
int result = setxattr(filePath, attrName, &attrValue, sizeof(attrValue), 0, 0);
return result == 0;
}
}
Thanks for the response!
Since the offline file storage is a key feature of the app (otherwise we could have just created an iPad-friendly site), Library/Caches isn't an option.
So that leaves us with either not supporting anything below iOS 5.0.1, or using Documents and 'rolling the dice' on the review process. This is part of the reason we wanted to go the Enterprise distribution route, and avoid the App Store review process entirely!
