How can I tell Asset Catalog (.xcassets) to use the Same Image for Multiple Image Wells?

Question

We have several Xcode app projects, and we\'re upgrading all of them to use the latest Xcode 5 features, including Asset Catalogs (.xcassets).

All of our

Answer 1

You can right click on the .xcassets file and choose 'Show in Finder'. Go to the 'Image.launchimage' folder and open the Contents.json file in a text editor. Here you can see that unassigned slots don't contain an "filename". You can add this manually. For example change the following:

{
    "orientation" : "landscape",
    "idiom" : "ipad",
    "extent" : "full-screen",
    "minimum-system-version" : "7.0",
    "scale" : "2x"
}

Into:

{
    "orientation" : "landscape",
    "idiom" : "ipad",
    "extent" : "full-screen",
    "minimum-system-version" : "7.0",
    "filename" : "Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png",
    "scale" : "2x"
}

Now safe the file, and voila!