Build target MyNotificationService: Framework not found - ios

Question

I have a React Native app "MyApp" that has a "MyNotificationService" attached (i.e. NotificationService.appex embedded under the Frameworks, Libraries and Embedded Content in Xcode in target "MyApp").
Up until this point everything fine.
Now I want to add another pod to "MyApp" naming pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK', which does not have anything to do with MyNotificationService. I just want to install it, so I can access the Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK in "MyApp".
My Podfile looks like this
target 'MyApp' do
use_unimodules!
config = use_native_modules!
use_react_native!(
:path => config[:reactNativePath],
:hermes_enabled => false
)
# Additional Dependencies
...
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK'
target 'MyNotificationService' do
use_native_modules!
inherit! :complete
end
post_install do |installer|
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
target.build_configurations.each do |config|
config.build_settings['APPLICATION_EXTENSION_API_ONLY'] = 'NO'
# deletes each pods deployment target definition and instead uses the definition of the main project
config.build_settings.delete 'IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'
end
end
end
end
However, after I ran pod install, I tried to build the debug version of MyApp using XCode, but XCode complains:
Build Target MyNotificationService
Link MyNotificationService (arm64)
Directory not found for option '-F/Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyApp-abcabcabcabcabc/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/XCFrameworkIntermediates/GoogleAppMeasurement'
Directory not found for option '-F/Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyApp-abcabcabcabcabc/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/XCFrameworkIntermediates/GoogleMobileAds'
Directory not found for option '-F/Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyApp-abcabcabcabcabc/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/XCFrameworkIntermediates/UserMessagingPlatform'
But MyNotificationService has nothing to do with these Frameworks GoogleAppMeasurement, GoogleMobileAds and UserMessagingPlatform - those belong to the Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK and only the main target MyApp should need them.
How can I tell MyNotificationService that it should not care about these frameworks?

Answer 1

Did solve the problem with an abstract target, that has both "MyApp" and "MyNotificationService" as subtargets defined in it. The abstract target is not an actual Xcode target but rather a placeholder or a folder that defines the pods that both the "MyApp" and "MyNotificationService" should both have shared. To get "MyNotificationService" ignore everything related to the 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK', the pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK' is only defined in the subtarget "MyApp".
abstract_target 'Shared' do
use_unimodules!
config = use_native_modules!
use_react_native!(
:path => config[:reactNativePath],
# to enable hermes on iOS, change `false` to `true` and then install pods
:hermes_enabled => false
)
# Additional Dependencies
...
target 'MyApp' do
# no inherit statement means that target MyApp has all pods from the parent "Shared" accessible
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK'
end
target 'MyNotificationService' do
# no inherit statement means that target MyNotificationService has all pods from the parent "Shared" accessible
use_native_modules!
end
post_install do |installer|
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
target.build_configurations.each do |config|
config.build_settings['APPLICATION_EXTENSION_API_ONLY'] = 'NO'
# deletes each pods deployment target definition and instead uses the definition of the main project
config.build_settings.delete 'IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'
end
end
end
end