Adding Skobbler to a swoft framework (instead of an app)

[jimt2000]

We're evaluating skobbler for a large deployment.

I'm building a framework that will be included in one or more apps.

I followed the steps to add in the documentation to add the cocoapod to my framework, but the framework doesn't build. It can't import SKMaps. I had to make two changes to make it work:
1. Add "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers" to my Header Search Paths
2. Manually create module.modulemap in "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers"

Content of module.modulemap

module SKMaps {
	header "SKMaps.h"
	export *
}

These two changes got me building successfully, but now I need to create a private cocoapod for my own framework. I'm hitting the same errors again.

From what I have been able to determine, https://developer.apple.com/library/...xandMatch.html describes what you need to do to package an Objective-C cocoapod so it can be used inside other Swift frameworks. See the section titled "Importing Code from Within the Same Framework Target"

In the meantime, I suppose I'll have to hack a fix in the podspec for my cocoapod, and find a way to make it work with the ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK cocoapod. I'm not sure yet how I'll do that.

To reproduce my problem:
1. Create a new swift iOS framework project.
a. File | New | Project.
b. In the left panel under iOS, select Framework & Library.
c. In the right panel, select CocoaTouch Framework. Next.
d. Enter project name, SkobblerNestedFramework. Make sure to select Swift for the language. Next.
e. Choose location for project. Create.

2. Create Podfile:

platform :ios, '9.0'
use_frameworks!

target 'SkobblerNestedFramework' do
	pod 'ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK'
end

target 'SkobblerNestedFrameworkTests' do
	pod 'ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK'
end

3. Pod Install
4. Create a class that uses SKMapView

import UIKit
import SKMaps

public class SkobblerMapView: UIView {

	var mapView: SKMapView

	public override init(frame: CGRect) {
		mapView = SKMapView(frame: CGRectMake(0,0, frame.size.width, frame.size.width))
		super.init(frame: frame)
		self.addSubview(mapView)
	}

	required public init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
		mapView = SKMapView(frame: CGRectZero)
		super.init(coder: aDecoder)
	}

	public override func awakeFromNib() {
		super.awakeFromNib()
		mapView.frame = self.bounds
		self.addSubview(mapView)
	}
}

According to the Apple documentation, the "import SKMaps" should not be necessary. Removing it results in errors on every line that references mapView.

I tried to attach a zip file with a sample project created with the steps above, but I would not upload, probably due to size (94 MB).


Does anyone have suggestions about how to work around this problem so that my cocoapod, with its dependency on the ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK cocoapod will work? (pod lib lint fails because it can't find SKMaps).

Thanks!

[Adela_Silvia]

I’ll forward this request to our developers. I'll get back with an update

[jimt2000]

For what it is worth, I backed out these two changes in my Xcode project:

1. Add "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers" to my Header Search Paths
2. Manually create module.modulemap in "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers"

So, I removed "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers" from my Header Search Paths, and
Deleted module.modulemap that I had created in in "${PODS_ROOT}/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Headers"

I replaced these with a build run script that copies the headers, and adds the module.modulemap file to the new header location. This way I don't have to remember to re create the module.modulemap file whenever I update the ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK cocoapod.

HEADER_DIR="${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/SKMaps"
FILES_TO_COPY="*"
mkdir -p "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/SKMaps"
cp -f "${PODS_ROOT}"/ScoutMaps-iOS-SDK/SKMaps.framework/Versions/A/Headers/${FILES_TO_COPY} "${HEADER_DIR}"
echo "module SKMaps {" > "${HEADER_DIR}"/module.modulemap
echo "    header \"SKMaps.h\"" >> "${HEADER_DIR}"/module.modulemap
echo "    export *" >> "${HEADER_DIR}"/module.modulemap
echo "}" >> "${HEADER_DIR}"/module.modulemap

This keeps my Xcode build working, but still don't have a way to create my own podspec that will validate correctly with pod lib lint.

Thanks!

[Adela_Silvia]

Thanks for the additional information. I've reported forward.

Update [17-05-2016]:
The issue was fixed and would be included in the next release 3.0