How to use Objective-C framework in a Swift written iOS part of a flutter plugin

Question

In a Flutter plugin, I would like to use an Objective-C framework in my iOS part written in swift, and after that using it in a Flutter project that uses Swift as iOS language. After some research about it (I'm not an iOS developer) I find out that what I would like to do is possible by importing the header in the file that act as Bridging header between swift and Objective-C, but the bridging header in the flutter plugin is created automatically if use_frameworks! is defined in the Podfile (as far as I know), and I didn't understand how actually import the header from the Objective-C (I think by defining something in the podspec but I don't know) pod in that. In fact, if I try to import something from the Objective-C pod, XCode complains (and the compiler too) about it by saying that it "doesn't find the module with name <framework name>" or that it can't build Objective-C code. If I try to use the framework in an Objective-C plugin I'm able to use it but only if I comment out use_frameworks! from the project Podfile

At the end, I was wondering if it's possible to use Objective-c external framework in Swift plugin for developing a flutter plugin.

Answer 1

I suggest you check out starflut package https://pub.dev/packages/starflut. But most likely what you are trying to accomplish has been done more simply for you in another package but if you are totally bent on doing it yourself I think you should try the package