How to Make a Pod of your iOS library

This post is about converting your iOS project into a pod and not how to upload it to CocoaPods (yes you can make private pods too). So here are the steps:

• finish your iOS library coding
• once done then make a new file called [your_project_name.podspec] in the root of your project structure.
• add the following (just default) code in your [your_project_name.podspec]

Pod:: Spec.new do |spec|
  spec.name         =  'your_project_name'
  spec.version      =  'your_project_version_number'
  spec.summary   =  'your_project_summary'
  spec.author = {
    'developer_name' => 'developer_email'
  }
  spec.license          =  'MIT' 
  spec.homepage         =  'your_project_homepage_url'
  spec.source = {
    :git => 'your_projects_github_https_git_url',
    :branch => 'your_project_branch_name'
  }
  spec.source_files =  'your_folder_name_which_has_all_the_lib_files/*.{h,m}'
  spec.requires_arc     =  true
end

Now anyone who wants to use your pod then they have to add the following line in their pod file.

pod 'library_name', :git => 'library_github_https_git_url', :branch => 'branch_name'

Now let me share what some of the terms (the ambiguous ones) in the podspec means:

• spec.source_files
  • you need to save all your library files in a folder, saved in the root directory of the project. Here you will have to mention this folder’s name
  • *.{h, m} means all the files with .h and .m extension