In the <compose multiplatform template>, is it required that the project must be opened in the IDE f...

# compose-ios

[aidanvii]

In the compose multiplatform template, is it required that the project must be opened in the IDE first before the iOS app can be built via terminal? 🤔

[Jan]

is there a message why it failed?

[jw]

Run generateDummyFramework first

[aidanvii]

That worked like a charm, thanks!

[jw]

We add it to our cocoapod so it happens on pod install. I keep meaning to send a PR to Kotlin so that it gets added automatically (it means we can't use automatic generation).

https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/blob/trunk/samples/emoji-search/ios-shared/EmojiSearchKt.podspec#L24-L26

[aidanvii]

Ah nice, yea that would be super useful. I’m assuming a Gradle sync from Android Studio runs generateDummyFramework for you. I’m also assuming this is why the readme in the compose multiplatform template says to reopen the project after running ./cleanup.sh

[jw]

I haven't seen what the template does, but it's generally not a problem for Android. Unless you're saying you launch the iOS app from Studio which is maybe a thing that's supported? We use Xcode

[aidanvii]

Yep, I launched the iOS app directly from studio.

The cleanup script from the template does this:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf .idea
./gradlew clean
rm -rf .gradle
rm -rf build
rm -rf */build
rm -rf iosApp/iosApp.xcworkspace
rm -rf iosApp/Pods
rm -rf iosApp/iosApp.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace
rm -rf iosApp/iosApp.xcodeproj/xcuserdata

Which means before running the iOS app you either:
1. reopen the project (as the documentation says), which will just.. 👇
2. do a Gradle sync
3. do what you suggested before xcodebuild
a. ./gradlew generateDummyFramework
b. ./gradlew shared:podspec
c. pod install (from iosApp dir)
d. xcodebuild... (from iosApp dir)

[Colton Idle]

tangent, but is cocoapods still popular? i thought most folks already went spm

[jw]

I would say it's probably 100x to 1000x more popular in pratice, yes

[aidanvii]

I missed a step above (./gradlew shared:podspec), I’ve updated ^

[aidanvii]

The shared module's podspec isn't removed with the cleanup script, but it is generated on a gradle sync, so it's only relevant for fresh checkouts, from CI for example