How to I import 3rd party frameworks into Xcode Playground?

Question

How do I import 3rd part frameworks into Xcode Playground?

Swift Playground obviously has a framework import mechanism because we can import Cocoa, SpriteKit, and in an OSX Playground, XCPlayground (XCPlayground seems missing from iOS, oddly)

What I'd really like to do is hide code from my playground and be able to show a minimal example. Any thoughts on how to load a Framework into Swift playground?

See also:

• How to import own classes from your own project into a Playground
• Is it possible to import third-party Objective-C code into a Swift playground?

(This question is different because the request is to use a framework in Playground rather than simply regular swift files)

Answer 1

There is currently no supported way to import your own framework or app code into a playground, short of pasting it into the playground editor. We're aware that this is very desirable functionality, but as always we encourage people to "vote with bugreporter" at bugreport.apple.com

Right now, if you're just trying to hide code for showing in an example, code folding in the editor might do the trick.

It is now possible to import your own frameworks into a playground. This provides a way to share code between your applications and playgrounds, which can both import your frameworks. To do this, your playground must be in the same workspace as the project that produces your framework. You must have already built your framework. If it is an iOS framework, it must be built for a 64-bit run destination (e.g. iPhone 5s). You must have an active scheme which builds at least one target (that target's build location will be used in the framework search path for the playground). Your "Build Location" preference (in advanced "Locations" settings) should not be set to "Legacy". If your framework is not a Swift framework the "Defines Module" build setting must be set to "Yes". Once all these conditions are fulfilled, importing your framework will work in a playground.

Answer 2

Edited: As of Beta5 this is now supported when the playground is part of the workspace that builds the framework as a target. There are more details on the Apple dev forums site, but hopefully @Rick Ballard will add them to his answer here and that should becoke the definitive answer for this question.

Don't do the below anymore!

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For the short term, while there's no supported solution, if you're producing a Module/Framework you can copy it into the SDKs System/Library/Frameworks directory and then just import <#Module#> the same way as you import system Frameworks.

For an OS X Playground: /Applications/Xcode6-Beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks

And for iOS: /Applications/Xcode6-Beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/

But before you do that... go file a radar as @Rick says in his answer.