[Icons] components/private/Icons as AssetCatalogs instead of individual files

[dmaclach]

We have found that reducing the number of files in a bundle improves build times and install times on simulators. Right now aside from localized files, png files are the majority of files in our bundle. We would like to reduce this down. One place we are seeing a number of png files is inside MaterialIcons_ic_*.bundles.

Can we change this over to being AssetCatalogs? This appears to be the direction that Apple wants us going with assets in general.

Related issue, the "pathFor_ic_*" methods are not AssetCatalog friendly, and don't appear to have much (if any) use given that you can get the images using the methods that return UIImage. Can we pull them from the interface so that people don't depend on them?

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• Associated internal bug: b/117178971

[romoore]

Closing this due to inactivity greater than 6 months. Please feel free to reopen if you believe it should be worked on in the near future.

[dmaclach]

I still think this should be worked on.

[material-mirror]

The internal issue b/117178971 is now closed. This issue is being closed as a result.

[codeman7]

Correcting the bot.

[zakdances]

Icons don't work at all for me.