Flutter Podfile and Pods folders not created in ios directory

Question

Created a new flutter project from Android Studio using the wizard.

Newly created project folder does not have any of the Pods folders or podfile in the ios directory.

This Flutter.io page states (emphasis mine):

While there is a Podfile in the iOS folder in your Flutter project, only use this if you are adding native dependencies needed for per-platform integration.

There is no podfile at all in my ios directory.

I found this comment in a different question here suggesting running the project on the ios simulator would generate the file but running the project on the sim and device both do not result in any podfile creation for me.

Is there some step in the ios side of the new flutter project creation that I missed? There's no way for me to add ios-specific dependencies without the podfile.

Output of flutter doctor:

[✓] Flutter (Channel beta, v0.5.1, on Mac OS X 10.12.6 16G1408, locale en-US)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 27.0.3)
[✓] iOS toolchain - develop for iOS devices (Xcode 9.2)
[✓] Android Studio (version 3.1)
[!] VS Code (version 1.25.1)
[✓] Connected devices (1 available)

Answer 1

Here is what I usually do:

1. go into ios folder
2. delete the Podfile.lock file
3. rm -rf Pods
4. pod cache clean --all
5. pod deintegrate
6. pod setup
7. pod install

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Answer 2

Once you run flutter build ios a Podfile and Podfile.lock will be created for you in the ios directory.

Follow the steps in the deploy steps official documentation.