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What do I need to do to have a KMM project working well with Xcode and cocoapods? I want to drop the `packForXcode` task and instead use cocoapods. And I also want to be able to add iOS-specific libraries directly into `build.gradle.kts`, like AFNetworking. I know that this is possible and doable but...

Is there a complete example out there?

I've tried the following but there ae always some issues...

- the `iosMain` directory is not treated as a source directory, which makes autocomplete or syntax highlighting impossible and hard to work with

- renaming it to `iosX64Main` and tweaking the `build.gradle.kts` but this breaks metadata dependency resolving since there is no plain `ios` anymore

You most likely missing
```kotlin.mpp.enableGranularSourceSetsMetadata=true
kotlin.native.enableDependencyPropagation=false```
in `gradle.properties`

<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/migrating-multiplatform-project-to-14.html#migrate-to-the-hierarchical-project-structure>

thanks, but no - I already have this in `gradle.propeties`

Take a look at KaMPKit <https://github.com/touchlab/KaMPKit>
We use a slightly more old-fashioned setup where we create either `iosX64` or `iosArm64` targets as needed, rather than using the `ios()` builder that uses heirarchical sources. See <https://github.com/touchlab/KaMPKit/blob/master/shared/build.gradle.kts#L28-L33>
If you are using `ios()`, I tend to find it works better in IDEA than Android Studio.

<@U2VU05RC4> thank you

building the iOS app from Xcode now works, as well as the cocoapods integration

somehow I'm still missing autocomplete and syntax highlighting features, even from `commonMain` . I encounter this pretty often in KMM.

in the `build.gradle.kts` you've linked earlier, there is this comment:

```// Revert to just ios() when gradle plugin can properly resolve it```
and the `if else` below distinguishes if Xcode wants to build the app on the simulator or on a real device? I'm coming from an Android background so this is somewhat strange to me at first

yeah the if/else checks an environment variable that Xcode sets during its build, to decide which target to use

If you're still having trouble with autocomplete and highlighting, check your Kotlin IDE plugin version and make sure it matches the Kotlin version you're using in the project

Well, after hours of struggle, it seems that ktor client versions of `1.4.1`  and `1.4.2`  mess up the autocomplete feature in all sourcesets

While `1.4.0` works fine