InterProject communication in XCode

Question

My project architecture is, a workspace which has two projects(Project A & Project B). Project A has three more sub projects(Project X , Project Y, Project Z).

• Workspace
  • Project A
    • Project x
    • Project y
    • Project z
  • Project B

Project B is more a kind of utility project. It needs to be re used in Project A, Project x,Project y, Project z and elsewhere it could be. I am starting to do a prototype. But face challenges in linking Project B in other projects. Every time i need to add the .a file manually into all other projects. Do we have any solution to dynamically link?

I tried this approach as well. I moved project B inside Project A below Project z. But i was not able to access the classes in Project x, y, z because all the projects are in the same level.

Any solution to dynamically link projects in the same level?

Militant

Kindly let me know if this approach is feasible? Anyone has worked on similar requirements? – Militant

Did you try CocoaPods? – Hemicycle

@Visput - No i haven't tried with that... Would that be the optimal solution? – Militant

Yes, it will easily manage your situation. If you want I can provide example of how to configure it to handle your scenario. – Hemicycle

@Visput could you please share an example – Militant

Not taking the bounty (@Visput, are you willing to write a step by step tutorial on SO?), the idea is to transform one or more .xcodeproj into Pods, starting with pod spec create, then create a Podfile at the client level, pointing to a local directory. Some documentation on guides.cocoapods.org/syntax/podspec.html – Wiegand

thank u.. will try it. – Militant

Answer 1

You need to add Project B as Target Dependency from Build Phases to other projects, that way Project B is built and added to other projects just as you'd like.

Crista

I am not able to add it Project B as Target Dependency for Project A. If projects are in the same level, we are not able to make one dependent of another, Only if a Project is inside another project, we can make the parent project dependent on child. – Militant