Error: “The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock…” after installing RestKit with cocoapods

Question

I\'ve encounter an strange issue after installing RestKit with cocoapods. after resolving RestKit dependency for my project with cocoapods and trying to build it, I face thi

Answer 1

I had been searching for hours and I found solutions as follow:

In my case, method 1 works.

Method 1:

1. choose the target > go to Build Phrases > click Link Binary With Libraries > remove all libPods.a files

2. open Terminal > direct to your project > run:

    pod install
   

3. clean and build project

ref.1

Method 2:

1. open Terminal > direct to your project > run:

   pod deintegrate --verbose    
   pod install --verbose
   

ref.2

Method 3:

1. choose the target > go to Build Settings > click "+" sign

2. add 2 User-Defined Settings: [to the left = to the right]

   PODS_ROOT = ${SRCROOT}/Pods
   

   and

   PODS_PODFILE_DIR_PATH = ${SRCROOT}/
   

ref.3