I have a Xamarin project which targets iOS and Android. I mainly develop on Windows with Visual Studio. The project is version controlled with git.
Recently, I used a Mac to build and deploy the iOS app and for this, I added icon sets (App Icon and Launch Screen) under Resources/Media.xcassets. After committing these changes to git and pulling them on the Windows machine, and after opening up Visual Studio, the Resources/Media.xcassets entry doesn't show up in the Solution Explorer.
This would not be a problem per se - but the csproj file got modified by VS like the following (so basically the image assets got marked invisible):
<ItemGroup>
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Contents.json" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@1x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@3x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@1x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@3x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@1x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@3x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-60x60@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-60x60@3x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-76x76@1x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-76x76@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-83.5x83.5@2x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Contents.json" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default%402x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-568h%402x.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-Portrait.png" />
- <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-Portrait%402x.png" />
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Contents.json">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@1x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-20x20@3x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@1x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-29x29@3x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@1x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-40x40@3x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-60x60@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-60x60@3x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-76x76@1x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-76x76@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\AppIcon.appiconset\Icon-App-83.5x83.5@2x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Contents.json">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default%402x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-568h%402x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-Portrait.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
+ <ImageAsset Include="Resources\Media.xcassets\LaunchImage.launchimage\Default-Portrait%402x.png">
+ <Visible>false</Visible>
+ </ImageAsset>
</ItemGroup>
I tried closing VS, reverting those changes to the project file and opened up VS again. As soon as VS loads the project, it modifies the csproj file again like above.
I have not the slightest idea of what is going on, nor how to avoid this. I do not need to see the resource files under Windows, however, I do not want to commit a change like this under version control, since I guess that this would make the assets disappear on my Mac, too...
So how can I avoid that?
I'm using Visual Studio Community 2017 and that's a Xamarin Forms 2 project (in case that matters).