Using Cocoapods in an app extension using a framework

Question

I have an app (let\'s call it MyApp) written in Swift with the following targets :

• MyApp : the main target
• MyAppKit : a targ

Answer 1

I don't know you. But for me, it's totally legit and reasonable to have the extension and the host app contain all the pods that a framework defines. And this is what i mean:

def shared_pods
    pod 'Alamofire'
end

target 'Framework' do
    shared_pods
end

target 'Host' do
    shared_pods
    // Some other pods
end

target 'Extension' do
    shared_pods
end

I know you are worried about but if you think about it, all those 3rd party frameworks you use, they all have dependencies. You don't have to worries about them because Cocoapods takes care of them for you. If you want to utilise that, then you'll need to put a local pod entry in the list.

target 'Host' do
    pod Framework, :path => '../Framework'
end

But then you have to maintain the podspec file.