Creating a custom framework which uses RealmSwift - ios

Question

When using realm in a simple project, I used the following steps from realm's instructions:
Download the latest release of Realm and extract the zip.
Go to your Xcode project’s “General” settings. Drag RealmSwift.framework and Realm.framework from the appropriate
Swift-versioned directory for your project in ios/, osx/, tvos/ or
watchos/ directory to the “Embedded Binaries” section. Make sure Copy
items if needed is selected (except if using Realm on multiple
platforms in your project) and click Finish.
In your unit test target’s “Build Settings”, add the parent path to RealmSwift.framework in the “Framework Search Paths” section.
If using Realm in an iOS, tvOS or watchOS project, create a new “Run Script Phase” in your app’s target’s “Build Phases” and paste the
following snippet in the script text field:
bash "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${FRAMEWORKS_FOLDER_PATH}/Realm.framework/strip-frameworks.sh"
I need to create a custom framework so that I can share multiple classes between apps. These classes use the Realm and RealmSwift Framework.
So I created a custom framework and added some classes. For these classes to work however, I need to have a link to the Realm framework within my custom framework.
I'm unsure how this can be done as in step 2, it states to drag the Realm and RealmSwift frameworks into the 'embedded section' of the project's general settings. But with a framework project, there is no embedded section. There is the 'Linked Frameworks and Libraries' section. I dragged the realm and realmSwift frameworks in there instead. But the custom framework will not build and it says that no module could be found for RealmSwift.
I'm unsure in a framework project if the search paths are the same as what they would be with a regular xcode project ( i.e. $(PROJECT_DIR) ) and I'm unsure what level I should expect to see the Realm and RealmSwift frameworks in my project explorer.

Answer 1

It's very annoying working with framework and library, if your framework is not packed into a .framework, then you might do something like this, might work:
Create a folder for your framework, add some source files
Add a .podspec with dependencies is Realm and RealmSwift, other value then you can learn from other pod
Create a normal app project
Install your framework into that app project with cocoapods with :path point to your folder, this will install realm and realmswift along with it
Now you can code your framework with realm normally without hard linking
For cocoapods and framework related stuff, check this tutorial
For framework project, what i usually do is avoid packing third party lib/framework into my .framework, i have 2 solution for this:
Let user does the job, mean you will create completion block and let them save it to realm themselve
Only include headers of the third party lib into your project and hope it will build without source files, this only works with simple third party project that have few headers, probably not Realm