Flutter iOS build failed an error of pod files: Podfile is out of date

Question

I\'m trying to build my app on the ios simulator(ios 13), but the build fails and gives an error of pod files: Podfile is out of date

This is the error.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this will work for everyone but my issue was fixed by running flutter run from the terminal.

I was just using the Flutter launcher from vscode and it kept throwing errors.

I had a Podfile already setup but I think flutter run maybe updated it or reinstantiated it? I'm unsure.

My issue was caused from an update to Flutter

Answer 2

Use pod install command in your ios directory to install new pods in your project. Even if you already have a Podfile and ran pod install before. This should work for you. I ran into the same problem some time ago and this is how it was solved.

Answer 3

This happens to most of times when i update the flutter SDK, But don't skip updating to make it better and easier because it is very easy to solve

It is necessary to fix - Removing contents of Pods folder will solve the issue, Here is the process of how to do this

1. To completely clean(Removing all points to links) and create upgraded to the new(uninstall and installing again too), Write following command

   flutter clean
   rm -Rf ios/Pods
   rm -Rf ios/.symlinks
   rm -Rf ios/Flutter/Flutter.framework
   rm -Rf ios/Flutter/Flutter.podspec
   

2. Then for reproduce Podfile follow this command

   rm ios/Podfile
   

3. Finally your project is ready to good to go

   flutter run
   

Answer 4

Suggestion after running flutter clean

pod install --verbose

run pod install --verbose because if you use cloud_firestore pod instlal might download gRPC-Core [https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git] which is ~200MB but because of it's git submodules it will end up downloading 1GB. So to see progress of what is goin on run

Answer 5

This mostly happens when you upgrade your flutter application, to solve this issue follow bellow steps

1. Go to Your_Project_Directory/ios/ and remove Podfile or you can do it by running the following command in the root project directory

   rm ios/Podfile
   

2. Run your project again, this will create a new and updated Podfile for you

   flutter run
   

Answer 6

Just in case, if someone runs into a problem similar to this output after updating the Podfile:

  ld: framework not found intent
    clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
    note: Using new build system
    note: Building targets in parallel
    note: Planning build
    note: Constructing build description

You can try this:

1. Go to Xcode Select your target.
2. Go to Build Settings.
3. Search the package name shown in the error. e. g. : framework not found intent.
4. You will see that there is a section like: "Linking"->"Other linker flags" ,then click the bold part of this row.
5. It will open a dialog box where you can remove the framework not found.
6. When removing the framework name, also remove the "-framework" tag.

This may be related to packages that only work in Android.