Integrate/Install cocoapods to existing xcode project, objective-c or swift

Question

I was looking for integrating cocoapods to my existing xcode projects.

I found these few post but they are based on issue instead my problem.

not able to acess installed pods framework

How to add cocoapods to existing workspace not project (this one is for work-space not project)

Making a CocoaPod from an existing Xcode project (this one is more on integrating swift with objective c project)

So I spending quality time i did for my project. I am sharing step by step integration in my answer post.

please feel free to suggest and improvement.

happy to learn and share

Answer 1

Install CocoaPods on System

Step.1 Open Terminal and enter the following command:

sudo gem install cocoapods

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Create Podfile for Project

Step.2 now you need to close Xcode.

Open Terminal at project's root folder

Step.3 Next, enter below command to create podfile:

pod init

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Edit podfile

Note: Make sure we will edit podfile with Xcode not TextEdit etc.

Step.4 Type this command to open the Podfile using Xcode for editing:

open -a Xcode Podfile

Step.5 update pode file as shown below screenshot, save and close.

Install lib/framework

Now we have added our required lib/framework pod command

pod 'SwiftForms'

let's go for install

Step.5 Enter the following command in Terminal and hit Enter

pod install

Result screen

Thats it!! we have done.

Open Project with pods

Now go to the project folder,we can see that CocoaPods created a new project_name.xcworkspace file and a Pods folder.

open project_name.xcworkspace with xcode

your project structure should look like