Xcode 4.3 : missing icons for iOS apps in Organizer's archives

Asked 21/3, 2012 at 8:9 Answered 25/1, 2013 at 21:48

Since upgrading to Xcode 4.3.x, my archives of iOS app in Organizer don't have an icon. (I have icons on my Mac OS X apps though)

One app in particular is an iPad app for which i provided 2 icons (normal + retina sizes) but still, I don't get an icon for it in my archives.

xcode-select -print-path returns /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer (which I believe is the right setting as I want to have xcodebuild and xcron available in the terminal)

EDIT :

After investigation, I've found out that as of Xcode4.3.2, archives are using the first item of the CFBundleIconFiles embedded inside the iOS5 CFBundleIcons property to display, but it won't work if you keep a .png extension to your file.

1/ About what Apple's documentation says:

When specifying icon files using the CFBundleIcons key, it is best to omit the filename extensions of your image files. If you include a filename extension, you must explicitly add the names of all image files (including any high-resolution variants). When you omit the filename extension, the system automatically detects high-resolution variants of your file, even if they are not included in the array.

Given that you don't want to have file extensions to your icon files (cf. above), mentioning "ipad" only in your .plist when your archive actually contains "ipad" and "ipad@2x" won't work. I had to mention both in the .plist for the retina version to be actually used on a Retina device.

BUT icons without .png extensions won't validate when you try to submit on the App Store. I'm fxxxed. Icons are making my life a nightmare right now.

2/ About TestFlight support of icons:

TestFlight doesn't seem to support icon files without extension as I can't see my icons on this service now that I removed my files .png extension

Jello answered 21/3, 2012 at 8:9 Comment(5)

i know that "met too" comments aren't appreciated much but this is a big deal.. in our company, every new XCode has this problem. And it affects older archives too (which were displayed correctly in 4.2). The upload to the App Store works and apps work as expected. It really is just a display issue.. but in previous versions no icon meant that the build process was wrong so this is a but frightening – Hornswoggle 21/3, 2012 at 9:15

i'm not sure you should be worried about a possible build problem. Although i don't have images on Organizer, the archives passed Apple validations and were successfully submitted to the App Store. – Jello 21/3, 2012 at 9:43

Yes it works for me too.. but previously this happened when you misconfigured build settings (like "skip install: no" on libraries) which resulted in f*ed up directory structures inside the .xcarchive – Hornswoggle 21/3, 2012 at 11:58

Thanks for the comments confirming that the images do go to the app store. I was a bit scared. – Snivel 2/4, 2012 at 15:30

That point about the file extension means that you should omit the file extensions when listing icon variants in your Info.plist, not that you should remove the file extensions from the actual files. So for example, if your bundle contains Icon.png and [email protected], your Info.plist should contain Icon (not Icon.png) in the CFBundleIconFiles array. – Luge 15/11, 2012 at 11:58

I had the exact same problem. Intrigued by your statement about xcode-select I first tried:

xcode-select -print-path

Which resulted in:

/Developer

Which is obviously wrong. So I first closed Xcode and then:

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

After I restarted XCode all the icons were back in the Organiser.

So thank you for pointing me in the right direction! But I realize it is probably not the solution for you. Hopefully others may benefit!

Epideictic answered 20/4, 2012 at 9:42 Comment(4)

Glad my remark helped. Unfortunately, I still don't have any icons shown in Organizer... :'( – Jello 20/4, 2012 at 13:33

This fixed it for me. I just did a fresh install of OS X 10.7 and Xcode from the MAS on my MBA and the default path was still set to '/Developer'. – Lipcombe 20/4, 2012 at 21:25

Fixed it for me as well. The icon showing up in Organizer is a fuzzy scaled up version of the default (not @2x) icon at the moment. I don't know if this is indicative of anything, or what icon should be present in the app bundle or the .plist file for the icon to look sharper there, but we'll see. Better than no icon, anyway. – Scever 2/5, 2012 at 11:52

Always bites me, especially when trying out different pre-releases of Xcode... Thx. – Latria 24/7, 2012 at 13:52

Add iTunesArtwork in your info.plist's CFBundleIconFiles.

Ruhr answered 30/3, 2012 at 7:22 Comment(2)

It does work in Organizer but then when submitting the app for the App store, validation fails with a message saying that a file from the Info.plist is missing in the bundle (when iTunesArtwork IS really part of the bundle). So I'm afraid this solution is not 100% satisfying. – Jello 4/4, 2012 at 8:35

iTunesArtwork should not included in CFBundleIconFiles. You can refer it HERE. :) – Feudalize 15/5, 2012 at 13:36

In your projects build phases turning off image compression solved this for me (it's either image or png compression, not at my computer to check) now this is a very strange situation because I haven't changed the way I format my images sense upgrading to 4.3 but during the app validation process I received an error telling me that my Icon.png wasn't 57x57 when it clearly was. I looked up how to solve this and turning off image compression was the fix... Which apparently made the icon show up in organizer too.... Weird.

Good luck!

Weird answered 21/3, 2012 at 8:47 Comment(4)

The setting is called "Compress PNG Files". I set it to NO and archive, but didn't get any luckier – Jello 21/3, 2012 at 9:40

Well it was worth a shot, this new version of Xcode seems to be extremely problematic. I mean I've been hearing about problems with it right and left, and it doesn't help that you and I both had this same issue with something as simple as an icon not showing up and for two different reasons. – Weird 21/3, 2012 at 9:44

I agree but I keep thinking Xcode 4.x are getting better and better though. 4.0 was just crap. :) – Jello 21/3, 2012 at 9:47

Overall, without a doubt Xcode is a great IDE, but for whatever reason 4.3.1 seems to be the glitchiest of their recent releases. – Weird 21/3, 2012 at 9:49

Check if the name of icon file is "Icon.png" .... not "icon.png" Not "ICON.PNG" not "icon.Png"

Meagre answered 12/8, 2012 at 19:7 Comment(0)

You may be mistaken on icon file name. Check if the name of icon file is "Icon.png" .... not "icon.png" Not "ICON.PNG" not "icon.Png". In my case it was "icon.png" I changed it to "Icon.png" and the problem got resolved.

Meagre answered 12/8, 2012 at 19:9 Comment(0)

I don't get it. However I'm running OS 10.8.2 and Xcode 4.5.2. At one point my app icon was working and somewhere along the way it vanished. I tried restarting, deleting derived data and nuthin.

However I tried:

Copying the icon.iconset folder to my desktop.
Deleting icon.iconset folder from Xcode
Dragging the folder back into Xcode (copy files/folders enabled)
Rebuild and voila! It showed up.

Magic I guess...

Tergiversate answered 25/1, 2013 at 21:48 Comment(0)

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