Publishing your library with Carthage

PUBLISHING YOUR LIBRARY WITH CARTHAGE Frédéric Maquin @ephread CocoaHeads Strasbourg
June 30th, 2016

Decentralised dependency manager for Xcode projects. 3

OCTOBER 2014 JUSTIN SPAHR-SUMMERS 4

Written in Swift. Based on iOS 8+ dynamic frameworks. 5

CocoaPods is CENTRALISED, EASY but INTRUSIVE. 7

Carthage is DECENTRALISED, UNINTRUSIVE and SIMPLE. CARTHAGE 8

EASY SIMPLE ≠ 9

GETTING STARTED 10

INSTALLATION $ brew install carthage 11

INSTALLATION https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage/releases or download PREBUILT PACKAGES. 12

Cartfile github "ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa" git "https://enterprise.local/desktop/git-error-translations2.git" 13

Cartfile github "ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa" git "https://enterprise.local/desktop/git-error-translations2.git" ~> 4.0 13

Cartfile github "ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa" git "https://enterprise.local/desktop/git-error-translations2.git" "master" 13

Cartfile $ carthage update 14

Cartfile $ carthage update FETCH the code and BUILD the
framework. 14

FRAMEWORK LINKING 15

STRIP ARCHITECTURE (iOS) Work around an App Store BUG. 16

You’re ALL SET! 17

PUBLISH 18

Bundle your code in a FRAMEWORK. 19

Share your SCHEMES. PRODUCT > SCHEME > MANAGE SCHEMES… 20

It doesn’t get any SIMPLER. 21

It doesn’t get any SIMPLER. But don’t forget to TAG
versions. 21

It doesn’t get any SIMPLER. But don’t forget to TAG
versions. And PUSH the code somewhere… 21

IN SHORT 22

CocoaPods is EASY TO USE and can LINT/ANALYSE your code.
PROS 23

CocoaPods can even generate the DOCUMENTATION for you. PROS 24

CONS CocoaPods is INTRUSIVE and can be SLOW. 25

Pods require some WORK to publish. CONS 26

Carthage is FAST, UNINTRUSIVE and SIMPLE. CARTHAGE PROS 27

Carthage ONLY SUPPORTS iOS 8+. CARTHAGE CONS 28

Carthage requires more work when IMPORTING LIBRAIRIES. CARTHAGE CONS 29

By the way, I prefer CARTHAGE over COCOAPODS. :o) 30

QUESTIONS? 31

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