I recently worked on On-Demand Resources for my tvOS app. The goal was to download a video file through ODR and play it.

Found this bug where the downloaded ODR asset will magically disappear after you present or dismiss a view controller.

Steps to reproduce this bug:

  • Create a NSBundleResourceRequest like NSBundleResourceRequest.init(tags: [“tag name”])
  • Call beginAccessingResourcesWithCompletionHandler
  • Asset is ready for use, hooray!
  • If presentViewController or dismissViewControllerAnimated is called, the downloaded asset will become unavailable, i.e. NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource returns nil.

The “workaround” I have is to avoid presenting/dismissing view controller as long as the ODR asset is still required.

Ticket #26892545 raised in Apple Bug Reporter (a.k.a. Radar).

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