What's the right way of removing CocoaPods from a project? I want to remove the whole CocoaPod. Due to some limitations imposed by my client I can't use it. I need to have just one xcodeproj instead of an xcworkspace.
Removing CocoaPods from a project is possible, but not currently automated by the CLI. First thing, if the only issue you have is not being able to use an xcworkspace
you can use CocoaPods with just xcodeproj
s by using the --no-integrate
flag which will produce the Pods.xcodeproj
but not a workspace. Then you can add this xcodeproj
as a subproject to your main xcodeproj
.
If you really want to remove all CocoaPods integration you need to do a few things:
NOTE editing some of these things if done incorrectly could break your main project. I strongly encourage you to check your projects into source control just in case. Also these instructions are for CocoaPods version 0.39.0
, they could change with new versions.
Podfile
Podfile.lock
and your Pods
directory)xcworkspace
xcodeproj
file, delete the references to Pods.xcconfig
and libPods.a
(in the Frameworks
group)Build Phases
delete the Copy Pods Resources
, Embed Pods Frameworks
and Check Pods Manifest.lock
phases.After those steps you should be set with a single xcodeproj
that existed before you integrated CocoaPods. If I missed anything let me know and I will edit this.
Also we're always looking for suggestions for how to improve CocoaPods so if you have an issues please submit them in our issue tracker so we can come up with a way to fix them!
EDIT
As shown by Jack Wu in the comments there is a third party CocoaPods plugin that can automate these steps for you. It can be found here. Note that it is a third party plugin and might not always be updated when CocoaPods is. Also note that it is made by a CocoaPods core team member so that problem won't be a problem.