Add downloaded resources (images) to Bundle?

I am developing an application which is a kind of contact list. This list is updated each times the applications starts. Each contact in the list has its own photo. A part of this list is common for every user of this application. For this part, I already have all the needed pics and I inlude them in the bundle/ar开发者_开发知识库chive (which will be sent to Apple). The pics of the new contacts (added during the lifetime of the app) are downloaded from a remote server (using ASIHTTPRequest). But I don't know how to handle these downloaded pics easily.

I am looking for a way to add these downloaded pics to the main bundle so I can call them using :

+ (UIImage *)imageNamed:(NSString *)name

Do you have any idea of the good practices for this kind of things ? If new resources can't be added to the main bundle, what are your recommendations ?

Thanks again for your help !

kheraud

You can only add files to your App's Documents directory. The main bundle can't be modified after your App has been released. Read the documentation on how to write to the directory.

Edit_: This should help you to get started http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneosprogrammingguide/StandardBehaviors/StandardBehaviors.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007072-CH4-SW6

I'm doing a similar thing for an app, and in the past I've used a couple of different Categories for UIImage.

For the current version I'm looking at https://github.com/rs/SDWebImage but I had really good luck using this one in a previous version https://github.com/jaanus/UIImageViewCached. For my purpose, I was downloading images from a URL and then caching them for use in a TableView.

HTH