Hello, is there any good tutorial about how to int...

# multiplatform

[aw]

Hello, is there any good tutorial about how to integrate shared.framework (which is exported from :*packForXcode*) via a cococapods into an existing App, without linking the App-project with the MPP-project (like in the Android Studio example)? We need to have the MPP-project separate from the iOS App and only use cocoapods to link the (prebuild) dependency. Every example I find either directly invokes :packForXcode from Xcode build-phases or uses cocoapods just to reference to the relative-path of the framework.

[Kris Wong]

you should be able to specify the source repo for the project in the podspec file

[aw]

Our idea is to build the framework, upload it to our (internal) artifactory and have a podspec, which points to the .framework in the artifactory. I can successfully run then pod install, but when I look into the Pods-project I can’t find the .framework - ist just empty…

[aw]

@Kris Wong yes, thats what we are doing, but its seems the .framework never arrives in the Xcode project (after pod install)

[Kris Wong]

is it executing the script phase and building the framework successfully?

[Kris Wong]

the problem with hosting the vendored framework in artifactory is that it will need to be a fat framework

[aw]

is it executing the script phase and building the framework successfully?

not in our iOS App, we just link via cocoapods

[aw]

the problem with hosting the vendored framework in artifactory is that it will need to be a fat framework

iosX64 + iosArm64 ?

[Kris Wong]

the generated podspec contains a script phase to build the framework with a matching ABI

[Kris Wong]

that's what builds the framework file

[aw]

but that means, the framework is built by the App again? can’t we have a framework which is pre-built?

[Kris Wong]

sure, you can have a fat framework, but you will need an Xcode build phase to strip out the x86 ABI (when archiving)

[Kris Wong]

but the entire point of cocoapods is that the dependencies are build locally, so why fight that?

[aw]

good point, I guess to reduce build-times and avoid that every dev need to rebuild it (with clean build)

[aw]

so the main challenge is to strip the x86 for the release (AppStore)?

[Kris Wong]

that part is actually fairly simple. the crux is getting cocoapods to consume a vendored framework from artifactory

[Kris Wong]

but I know it can be done.

[aw]

I managed to do this (I guess)
I set s.source and s.vendored_frameworks in my podspec and pod install runs without error. but when looking into the Pods project, there is no .framework. I am not sure if there is a problem with the podspec or with the framework itself

[aw]

s.source       = { :http => "<url-to-framework.zip>",
                     :sha1 => "<sha1-checksum-of-zip>" }

[aw]

I believe if the sha1 or the url is wrong, it would fail running pod install , but thats not the case