Flutter Podfile and Pods folders not created in ios directory

Question

Created a new flutter project from Android Studio using the wizard.

Newly created project folder does not have any of the Pods folders or podfile in the ios directory.

Answer 1

Once you run flutter build ios a Podfile and Podfile.lock will be created for you in the ios directory.

Follow the steps in the deploy steps official documentation.

Answer 2

Here is what I usually do:

1. go into ios folder
2. delete the PodFile.lock file
3. rm -rf Pods
4. pod cache clean --all
5. pod deintegrate
6. pod setup
7. pod install

You may also want to do

pod repo update

Answer 3

flutter:
      plugin:
        platforms:
          ios:
            pluginClass: AppDelegate

You need to add the above lines to the pubspec.yaml and then the pub would automatically generate the Podfile inside the ios folder.

Answer 4

I will suggest simply go to your Flutter Package and do flutter create . It will automatically create all the missing files and even Podfile. I have used this command in my project and it is fruitful.

Answer 5

Recently, I encountered the same problem. No Podfile created even when I add dependency packages in the pubspec.yaml file. In the end, I have to manually add a Pod file in the ios directory and issue 'pod deintegrate', 'pod setup' and 'pod install'.

Here is my podfile. You can try it:

# Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '9.0'

# CocoaPods analytics sends network stats synchronously affecting flutter build latency.
ENV['COCOAPODS_DISABLE_STATS'] = 'true'

pod 'Firebase/Core'
pod 'FBSDKLoginKit' #optional
pod 'GoogleAnalytics'

def parse_KV_file(file, separator='=')
  file_abs_path = File.expand_path(file)
  if !File.exists? file_abs_path
    return [];
  end
  pods_ary = []
  skip_line_start_symbols = ["#", "/"]
  File.foreach(file_abs_path) { |line|
      next if skip_line_start_symbols.any? { |symbol| line =~ /^\s*#{symbol}/ }
      plugin = line.split(pattern=separator)
      if plugin.length == 2
        podname = plugin[0].strip()
        path = plugin[1].strip()
        podpath = File.expand_path("#{path}", file_abs_path)
        pods_ary.push({:name => podname, :path => podpath});
      else
        puts "Invalid plugin specification: #{line}"
      end
  }
  return pods_ary
end

target 'Runner' do
  # Prepare symlinks folder. We use symlinks to avoid having Podfile.lock
  # referring to absolute paths on developers' machines.
  use_frameworks! 
  system('rm -rf .symlinks')
  system('mkdir -p .symlinks/plugins')

  # Flutter Pods
  generated_xcode_build_settings = parse_KV_file('./Flutter/Generated.xcconfig')
  if generated_xcode_build_settings.empty?
    puts "Generated.xcconfig must exist. If you're running pod install manually, make sure flutter packages get is executed first."
  end
  generated_xcode_build_settings.map { |p|
    if p[:name] == 'FLUTTER_FRAMEWORK_DIR'
      symlink = File.join('.symlinks', 'flutter')
      File.symlink(File.dirname(p[:path]), symlink)
      pod 'Flutter', :path => File.join(symlink, File.basename(p[:path]))
    end
  }

  # Plugin Pods
  plugin_pods = parse_KV_file('../.flutter-plugins')
  plugin_pods.map { |p|
    symlink = File.join('.symlinks', 'plugins', p[:name])
    File.symlink(p[:path], symlink)
    pod p[:name], :path => File.join(symlink, 'ios')
  }
end


#pre_install do |installer|
  # workaround for https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/3289
 # Pod::Installer::Xcode::TargetValidator.send(:define_method, :verify_no_static_framework_transitive_dependencies) {}
#end

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'NO'
      config.build_settings['SWIFT_VERSION'] = '4.2'
    end

    # Peter aded on 8 Oct 2018
    # workaround for https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/7463
    #target.headers_build_phase.files.each do |file|
     # file.settings = { 'ATTRIBUTES' => ['Public'] }
    #end

  end
end

Also, I tried using Vcode to create a new Flutter project. Add package in pubspec.yaml file, save and the podfile was automatically created,

Create a new Flutter project using Vcode

1. Start VS Code
2. Invoke View>Command Palette…
3. Type ‘flutter’, and select the ‘Flutter: New Project’ action
4. Enter a project name (e.g. myapp), and press Enter
5. Specify a location to place the project, and press the blue OK button
6. Wait for the project creation to continue, and the main.dart file to appear
7. Add a package in the pubspec.yaml file and save it.
8. The podfile should be created.