Xcode 7.3 Syntax Highlighting and Code Completion issues with Swift

Question

I am having an extremely frustrating issue with XCode 7.3 (however, this issue has persisted since I installed XCode 7.2) and Swift code, and I am hoping others have had thi

Answer 1

This might not be necessary anymore but i still want to post this:

At the time of this post, the most recent version of cocoapods (1.0.0.beta.8) requires you to define pods for each Xcode target.

In my case I had a class compile for the project target and for a testing target. I added a pod only to the main target, because of laziness.

Now working in the code of class A I added the pod framework using import NAME and tried to use the classes of the framework. Xcode wouldn't highlight the particular code where I use the new classes, but compiling and running works fine. In the completion dialog the type of the variable was <>

The way to resolve this issue: in the Podfile add the newly added pod to all targets, the class A is member of.

Now Xcode finds the necessary frameworks for all targets and code highlighting works again.

EDIT 1:

A possible solution is defining a list of shared pods, like in my example:

platform :ios, '8.4'
use_frameworks!
inhibit_all_warnings!

def all_pods
    pod 'MPMessagePack'
    pod 'SwiftyDispatch'
    pod 'BFKit'
    pod 'Timepiece'
    pod 'Alamofire'
    pod 'AlamofireSwiftyJSON'
end

def testing_pods
    pod 'Quick'
    pod 'Nimble'
end

target 'App' do
    all_pods
end

target 'AppLogicTests' do
    all_pods
    testing_pods
end

target 'AppUITests' do
    pod 'RxTest'
    all_pods
    testing_pods
end

post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        puts target.name
    end
end

This will add all pods to all targets and adding all testing pods to the targets. Next to these I added 'RxTest' to the AppUITests.

(Chosen pods are examples of my projects, no advertising intended :-) )