iPhone: Downloading zip and extracting in main bundle subdirectory at runtime

Question

I want to extend my iPhone app that the app downloads a zip file into a sub directory then extracts it and then load images which were inside the zip.

Any ideas how

Answer 1

I've used ZipArchive with success in the past.

It's pretty ligthweight and simple to use, supports password protection, multiple files inside a ZIP, as well as compress & decompress.

The basic usage is:

NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"ZipFileName" ofType:@"zip"];
ZipArchive *zipArchive = [[ZipArchive alloc] init];
[zipArchive UnzipOpenFile:filepath Password:@"xxxxxx"];
[zipArchive UnzipFileTo:{pathToDirectory} overWrite:YES];
[zipArchive UnzipCloseFile];
[zipArchive release];