What do I need to do to have a KMM project working well with Xcode and cocoapods? I want to drop the...

# multiplatform

[Azur Haljeta]

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...

[Azur Haljeta]

- 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

[KamilH]

You most likely missing

kotlin.mpp.enableGranularSourceSetsMetadata=true
kotlin.native.enableDependencyPropagation=false

in gradle.properties

[KamilH]

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

[Azur Haljeta]

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

[russhwolf]

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.

[Azur Haljeta]

@russhwolf 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

[russhwolf]

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

[russhwolf]

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

[Azur Haljeta]

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