Integrating pods with all targets - ios

Question

I have been using CocoaPods for a few weeks now with my iOS app and it works perfectly with the one target I have been testing (let's call it "MainApp"). However, I now want to build a different target ("MyAppLite") and noticed that the build failed (file not found on one of the pods' header files).
The differences in the Build Settings I've noticed are as follows:
Other Linker Flags does not contain the required frameworks in MyAppLite
Framework/Header/Library Search Paths are all empty in MyAppLite
None of the User-Defined Build Settings in MainApp are present in MyAppLite
How can I ensure that when I run pod install, all targets have the libraries linked?
For reference, here is my Podfile:
platform :ios, '5.0'
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel', '~> 1.7.0'
pod 'iRate', '~> 1.7.5'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.6'
pod 'FlurrySDK', '~> 4.2.3'
pod 'ACSimpleKeychain', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'WEPopover', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 1.3.1'
pod 'Nimbus', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'QuincyKit', '~> 2.1.9'

Answer 1

For CocoaPods 1.0.0, recommendation from devs is using abstract_target (but not compatible with 0.39.0):
platform :ios, '5.0'
abstract_target 'defaults' do
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel', '~> 1.7.0'
pod 'iRate', '~> 1.7.5'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.6'
pod 'FlurrySDK', '~> 4.2.3'
pod 'ACSimpleKeychain', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'WEPopover', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 1.3.1'
pod 'Nimbus', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'QuincyKit', '~> 2.1.9'
target 'MyApp'
target 'MyAppLite'
end
For CocoaPods 0.39.0 + 1.0.0 compatibility, using def works fine (but isn't recommended by devs):
platform :ios, '5.0'
def default_pods
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel', '~> 1.7.0'
pod 'iRate', '~> 1.7.5'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.6'
pod 'FlurrySDK', '~> 4.2.3'
pod 'ACSimpleKeychain', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'WEPopover', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 1.3.1'
pod 'Nimbus', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'QuincyKit', '~> 2.1.9'
end
target 'MyApp' do
default_pods
end
target 'MyAppLite' do
default_pods
end

Answer 2

With CocoaPods 1.x
You can use the target blocks
platform :ios, '13.0'
def default_pods
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel', '~> 1.7.0'
pod 'iRate', '~> 1.7.5'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.6'
pod 'FlurrySDK', '~> 4.2.3'
pod 'ACSimpleKeychain', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'WEPopover', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 1.3.1'
pod 'Nimbus', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'QuincyKit', '~> 2.1.9'
end
target 'MyApp' do
default_pods
end
target 'MyAppLite' do
default_pods
end
Relevant documentation

Answer 3

If you have large number of targets and don't want to add new target each time, you can use this
def common_pods
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel', '~> 1.7.0'
pod 'iRate', '~> 1.7.5'
pod 'MBProgressHUD', '~> 0.6'
pod 'FlurrySDK', '~> 4.2.3'
pod 'ACSimpleKeychain', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'WEPopover', '~> 0.0.1'
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 1.3.1'
pod 'Nimbus', '~> 1.0.0'
pod 'QuincyKit', '~> 2.1.9'
end
project = Xcodeproj::Project.open “./<projectNameHere>.xcodeproj"
project.targets.each do |t|
target t.name do
common_pods
end

Answer 4

From the docs:
If no explicit target is specified, then the Pods target will be linked with the first target in your project.
You can use link_with to link with further targets.
Also see Multiple Targets in the Cocoapods documentation if you need different dependency configurations for different targets