I've already had a Objective-C version big project. Now I want to develop the future features in Swift. I know it's easy to use Swift in Objective-C.
But what makes me worried is whether it would make any trouble like some build errors.
Especially， I'am using CocoaPods to import a doze of Objective-C version frameworks.
Would it make errors by adding use_frameworks!?
I've already gotten a problem that I should change <> to "" to import frameworks installed by CocoaPods.
I'm not sure whether it would cause any other problems or not. That's why I'm asking this question.
So, I will be really appreciate if someone could tell me is it safe or not to use Swift in Objective-C project.
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I searched through existing Stackoverflow questions related to this problem but didn't find any help to solve it.
So here's the problem:
I am trying to integrate .framework file into the project but it's giving me an error saying that module compiles with 4.0.3 can't be imported by swift 5.0 compiler.
I wanted to know how to compile that.framework file? so that it will become compilable to swift 5.0
Please help if you come across such a problem.
Note: .framework file is created by a third-party developer
If the framework you're trying to integrate is binary only, then your best option is to check with the 3rd party developer regarding their support for Swift 5.0.
In case there are sources available, you can try checking if there is any work being done in their repository (usually a separate branch), or you can try forking the sources yourself.
Note that with the source option, you'll have access to possibly unstable and untested code, and depending on the experience I'd be very careful in this case.
Good day,
I am relatively new in Swift language. I have been using objective-c.
Recently I tried adding a swift pods into my objective-c project but I get loads of errors that I know nothing of. I am attaching the screenshot. Can you please take a look and help me out with this. thankyou!
I think I just must be stupid.
I'm having a lot trouble understanding very basic things concerning frameworks in Xcode/iOs/Swift. While I've certainly gotten some things to work, I've gotten more and more confused about what I'm actually doing. And the documentation on the web just confuses me more.
When I see discussions about how to import particular frameworks (e.g. https://github.com/danielgindi/Charts is the library I'm playing with, but I've seen this pattern repeated in other libraries) they seem to always tell me include the Xcode project file as a child project of my project, in addition to linking things as an embedded binary. This confuses me. Is it not possible to link an already compiled framework to my project without including all the source code of the project?
That is, can't I just take a library.framework file, and add it to my embedded libraries list and be done with it?
In the frameworks I've played with (again https://github.com/danielgindi/Charts is my primary example, but this is true in many others I've played with) I can't seem to use the framework without Carthage or CocoaPods. For me at this stage, that is just confusing... I accept that they are useful tools to automate a difficult process, but I'd really like to understand what that process actually is before I let a tool automate it for me. As I search the web I just seem to always be led back to these tools as being the correct way to do things.
So here are my questions.
If I find a framework library on the web... do I need its source code or can I somehow just link to a compiled version of the framework?
In my reading, it seems that libraries made with Swift are somehow second-class citizens because Swift is a newer thing. Is that still the case? (The articles I read about this seems to date from 2014-2015).
Is there are good place to understand how Apple expects me to add a framework to a project, without using CocoaPods or Carthage?
No need to add source code. Just add the framework to Target ->
General -> Linked Framework and Libraries -> Tap on + and select
your framework.
In my opinion, many new libraries are being written is Swift. So you won't be left behind for using swift.
Apple has documentation about adding frameworks to XCode. But I would suggest to use Cocoapods , as its easy to manage libraries.
Cheers :)
I'm working on a project in Swift 3. However, many libraries are still using Swift 2.3.
Is there a way of making use of them in my project as they are?
Since it's possible to use Objective C libraries in Swift, I figure there's a chance.
Maybe this reference from Apple answers the question:
unfortunately it would seem to be impossible:
First, Swift 2.3 and Swift 3 are not binary compatible so your app's entire code base needs to pick one version of Swift.
https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=36
I see there’s many libraries, open source, like Cocos2d, ShareKit, FormatterKit, etc. that seems up to date. (Check GitHub).
But still, implementation, snippets, samples and manual are intended to be written in Objective-C.
But, a method is a method… I think… If I get an instance of any framework/library of these and I call the method in a full Swift enviroment, would I be affected behind the scenes?
After June WWDC Swift gonna get serious, Apple is pushing hard, I’m just getting ready for the move and I don’t want my Apps to implement a soon-to-be deprecated library implementation in Objective-C.
I do not understand your question so much that I will regard your question as "Is it possible to use the Objective-C&Swiftin the same project?"
Yes, Apple claimed that developers can use Bridging-Header to implement double languages development, whatever your main developing language is ObjC or Swift. The specific details and theories about it you shall check from there.
Next I want to tell you some errors occurred in my project when I used Bridging-Header.
I always meet this kind of problem like import 'file not found'. I think you can try to check your file&folder hierarchy. Such as you have a root folder named Project, as is often the case, there is another Project in your previous Project, the root folder.
And Checking the Objective-C Bridging Header in the Build Setting. Sometime error can occurred for Project/Project/Bridging-Header.h. And the error can be corrected by changing the definition as Project/Bridging-Header.h.
If the location of Bridging-Header.h is not matching with the definition in the Build Setting, the error like import file not found will occur.
I just tell your my solution for Bridging issue I already met, I hope it can help you.