iPhone - how to store documents consisting of multiple images?
- by Joe Strout
My iPhone (actually, iPad) app creates documents that consist of several images, plus a bit of metadata.  What's the best practice for storing these sorts of documents on disk?  I see two main options:
Create a folder for each document, and store my images as separate PNG files within the folder (plus another little file for the metadata).
Create a single file which contains all images and metadata.
But I'm not sure how to easily do option 2.  I think I can convert my images in PNG format to/from NSData, but then what?  I'm still a newbie at Cocoa, but I believe I saw something about stuffing mixed data into some NSSomethingOrOther and having this write itself out to disk, and read itself back in later.  Does this ring a bell with anyone?  And, will it work with large binary blobs of data like my images?
Or would you recommend I simply go with option 1?