Create an empty file if it no longer exists?

Question

I added an empty file to the application resources, but it was not found in the assembly, how would I programmatically check and create a file if it does not already exist?

Answer 1

First of all, you can only write to the application document directory.

- (BOOL)createFileAtPath:(NSString *)path contents:(NSData *)contents attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes

NSFileManager doc here

Answer 2

You can do this as a custom build step (this is actually a simple shell script). For example, just addtouch yourfilename