What is Assets.car file in .app?

Question

I was looking at the contents of my application and I found the file Assets.car in the resources folder of my application along with some nibs:

My question is: What is this file and what does it have to do with the application? What kind of data does it contain?

Cerys

I would assume that it is the assets.catalog developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/… – Luting

These days, the link to the above is at help.apple.com/xcode/mac/8.0/#/dev10510b1f7 – Surprise

developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/managing-assets-with-asset-catalogs – Belligerence

Answer 1

It is the "compiled" version of the assets catalog.

Trillium

Answer 2

Assets.car file

When you build a project all your non empty assets .xcassets which are added to Build Phases -> Copy Bundle Resources will be compiled into Assets.car file, which is generated by Xcode during building and set up by Build Settings -> Asset Catalog Compiler

[Open Assets.car]

Cadmarr