cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support

Are you tired of manually adding ios dependencies in Cordova apps? Me too. Android has Gradle support out of the box, but CocoaPods get no love. That is until now.

With this plugin you can define your plugin or project CocoaPods dependencies right in your xml.

After adding this plugin be sure to open the .xcworkspace in XCode instead of the .xcodeproj.

Note: Dependencies defined in the config.xml take precedence of dependencies defined in plugin's.

How does it work?

It looks for <pod> entries the config.xml and plugin.xml, creates the Podfile, updates the necessary configs and then runs pod update for you.

How do I install it?

If you're like me and using Cordova CLI:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support --save

or

phonegap local plugin add cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support

How do I use it?

In a plugin's plugin.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<plugin id="cordova-plugin-withpods" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0">
    <name>A Plugin With CocoaPods Dependencies</name>
    <description>
        A plugin demonstrating the use of CocoaPods dependencies.
    </description>
    
    <dependency id="cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support"/>

    <platform name="ios">
        <pod id="LatestPod" />
        <pod id="VersionedPod" version="1.0.0" />
        <pod id="GitPod1" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" tag="v1.0.1" configuration="debug" />
        <pod id="GitPod2" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" branch="wood" configurations="release,debug" />
        <pod id="GitPod3" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" commit="1b33368" />
    </platform>
</plugin>

In a project's config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="com.blakgeek.cordova.superdopeness" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
    <name>CocoapodsDemo</name>
    <description>
        An app demonstrating the use of CocoaPods dependencies.
    </description>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <access origin="*" />
    <platform name="ios">
        <!-- set platform :ios, defaults to 7.0 -->
        <preference name="pods_ios_min_version" value="8.0"/>
        <!-- add use_frameworks! to Podfile, this also disabled bridging headers -->
        <preference name="pods_use_frameworks" value="true">
        <pod id="LatestPod" />
        <pod id="VersionedPod" version="1.0.0" />
        <pod id="GitPod1" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" tag="v1.0.1" configuration="debug" />
        <pod id="GitPod2" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" branch="wood" configurations="release,debug" />
        <pod id="GitPod3" git="https://github.com/blakgeek/something" commit="1b33368" />
    </platform>

or have a look at the demo plugin.

Notes

• Enabling the pods_use_frameworks preference disables the bridged headers property added by CB-10072. This might cause odd behavior in some projects.

##TODO:

• Update with examples of all of the supported pod attributes (git, podspec, path, subspec, configuration(s) )