Provide default Info.plist for *_application rules

[ssarad]

Fixes #1858

The issue is quite old but we're currently at a larger monorepo with several apps so I figured this would be nice to get in. In this PR, I focused mostly on ios_application but happy to hear some thoughts if we want to expand this towards *_application

[keith]

is the way that xcode treats this plist just that it's a default and if you have custom stuff? or does it always merge it in to whatever you provide too? if it's the latter i wonder if instead of just treating this as a default if we should just do something more like default_plist | user_plist always.

also can this apply to more targets than just ios_application? i assume some others could benefit from this too?

this is very nice to do, i always find this annoying in simple cases

[keith]

Suggested change

infoplists = [":Info.plist"], # Optional; a default Info.plist will be used if not provided

i think we should toss this from the example. IMO the value of this example is just providing the most minimal info

[ssarad]

Yeah, makes sense. Also for

is the way that xcode treats this plist just that it's a default and if you have custom stuff? or does it always merge it in to whatever you provide too? if it's the latter i wonder if instead of just treating this as a default if we should just do something more like default_plist | user_plist always.

Its actually due to some custom stuff but also we are moving towards a monorepo setup so before all apps join, they'd want to evaluate and play around with simple Bazel setup and often times I'm running myself into creating these info.plist which I realized could be much simpler if we just made a default one like Xcode does

[ssarad]

also can this apply to more targets than just ios_application? i assume some others could benefit from this too?

Yeah this was my thinking too - should we expand to all *_applications? I think yes, and I'll do that and make the push, if you feel we want to scope it to just ios_application or macos_application, let me know