Create You Own Pod

#pods #library #ios #swift

So far you would have used pods as a dependency in your project.
Do you want to create your own pod and help others?

Let's do it by below easy steps -

Open terminal and type the command -> pod lib create Your_Pod_Name
It will ask you some questions and then will create an XCode project for you. This Xcode project will contain some files added for you
1. .podspec -> will contain the details/specifications about your library
2. README.md -> the README file in markdown format.
3. License -> this will hold the default MIT license. You can replace with your own if required.
4. ReplaceMe.swift -> A default swift file to guide where to add your files.

Lets setup the project now -

README.md - Open this file and add/edit the details relevant to you. You can remove the details which are not required.
Addling classes -
1. Delete the Replace Me file.
2. Click on MyFirstPod under Pods and Create a folder with name Sources
3. Now add your library files to this folder.
Adding Resources - You need to add the resources like xib,asset,icons etc to a separate folder. If you don’t have any then you can skip this step.
1. Create a folder named Resources on the same level as we did for Sources.
2. Now add your resource files to it here
Update folder path in podspec file - Open you podspec file and set the following keys one by one
1. set s.source_files to this s.source_files = 'Sources/**/*.swift'
2. s.resources to below. You can add the extension of files you have added to your project. s.resources = "Resources/**/*.{png,xib}"
3. Add the description and summary for your project
Deploy your library -
1. Push to your Git Repo -
  1. Create a repository for this project and push your project to it.
  2. Now we need to add a tag to the last commit. This tag should be the one mentioned in podspec file on s.version. This tag is becomes the version of your pod.
2. Validate -
  1. Open terminal
  2. Traverse to the folder where the podspec file exists.
  3. Run pod lib lint --allow-warnings. This will validate your library.