How to use cocoapods with a Flutter plugin?

Question

First, I would like to say that I am not a iOS developer.

I am trying to develop a VLC plugin for Flutter. For so, I need to add its pod (pod "MobileVlcKit") to a podfile, right? But when I create the project (via the command flutter create -t plugin flutter_vlc_kit), the iOS folder inside the project has no podfile.

Also, it does not have any of the .xworkspace or .xcodeproj files that I can open on XCODE for code editing:

How can I add the vlc kit dependency pod (pod "MobileVlcKit") to this plugin?

Answer 1

Add your pod dependency modifying your ios/flutter_vlc_kit.podspec

s.dependency 'MobileVLCKit'

or with the wanted version

s.dependency 'MobileVLCKit', '3.2'

References:

• Flutter Plugins

• Cocoapods

Then go to your example/ios folder and run pod install.

Then open your Runner.xcworkspace and build your plugin from there.

Note: probably you could encounter this issue - tl;dr (not the best choice) change the build system of XCode to the legacy one.