Support for VisionOS

[gabrieldonadel]

• I've read and understood the CONTRIBUTING guidelines and have done my best effort to follow.

PRs

• Core - Add visionos as a new platform Core#745
• CocoaPods - Add visionos as a new platform #11965
• cocoapods-integration-specs - Update specs to support visionOS cocoapods-integration-specs#343
• Xcodeproj - Add visionos as a new platform Xcodeproj#913

Report

What did you do?

• Run pod init inside a visionOS project

• Edit the Podfile to set visionOS as the selected platform

platform :visionos, '1.0'

• Run pod install

What did you expect to happen?

CocoaPods show work just as in any other project

What happened instead?

Invalid Podfile file: Unsupported platform visionos

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.12.1
        Ruby : ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [arm64-darwin22]
    RubyGems : 3.4.10
        Host : macOS 13.4 (22F66)
       Xcode : 15.0 (15A5161b)
         Git : git version 2.39.2 (Apple Git-144)
Ruby lib dir : /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ruby/3.2.2/lib
Repositories : trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/

Installation Source

Executable Path: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.12.1/libexec/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.5
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.1
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.6.0
cocoapods-try         : 1.2.0

Podfile

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :visionos, '1.0'

target 'react-native-visionOS' do
  # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for react-native-visionOS

  target 'react-native-visionOSTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

[gabrieldonadel]

You may want to use xros also. Some internal code refer to visionOS as xros

[renchap]

xros was the internal name during development, and not everything was renamed to visionos before the WWDC. VisionOS should be the named used everywhere now.

[marcpalmer]

My understanding is that in code terms it is staying as xros. e.g. TARGET_OS_XROS is, as advised by Apple engineers, the way to detect XROS at build time in ObjC code, and you must check this as well as TARGET_OS_IOS in some situations as the TARGET_OS_IOS is also true for XROS. I don't think all these are changing to VisionOS. They certainly haven't so far.

[Brett-Best]

SPM uses visionOS, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/packagedescription/platform/visionos

[gabrieldonadel]

I believe all the necessary PRs have been opened, please let me know if anything else is necessary

• Core - Add visionos as a new platform Core#745
• CocoaPods - Add visionos as a new platform #11965
• Xcodeproj - Add visionos as a new platform Xcodeproj#913

[dnkoutso]

Nice thanks! Will take a look.

[gabrieldonadel]

Hi @dnkoutso, quick question, do you already have an idea of when you're going to release CocoaPods 1.13.0? I'm not really sure how often the release process happens

[dnkoutso]

@gabrieldonadel it happens kinda ad hoc with the free time of folks. No actual date. I do wish to land the SPM PRs that are open to add support for SPM dependencies into cocoapods.

It would be a good feature along side visionOS for a release as well as unblock Swift Macros (via SPM) for CocoaPods.

[dnkoutso]

In the meantime you can use https://bundler.io/ to point to master of CocoaPods/CocoaPods and CocoaPods/Core to use this.

[abbana]

Thanks,
can you please give the procedure or at least a bit of more detail on how to point master of CocoaPods/CocoaPods and CocoaPods/Core with bundler?

Will be highly appreciated.

[abbana]

For those who wonder how do that, hope the below will help:

After scraping from
https://bundler.io/guides/git.html
https://medium.com/@soxjke/bundler-is-a-best-friend-of-ios-developer-2fc80d9ee85f
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71299074/in-a-rails-gemfile-how-do-i-reference-a-commit-from-a-pr
https://github.com/CocoaPods/Core/blob/master/Gemfile.lockhttps://github.com/CocoaPods/Core/commit/9320bf557741d7ae80eda4415bc6fb2b0b3a8b9c

0 - gem install bundler
1- Go to the root of the project , where the Podfile is located
2- Create Gemfile and put the below

frozen_string_literal: true

gem 'cocoapods', git: 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods', ref: '400f290cb9269ea342948f629525a5542933627f'
gem 'cocoapods-core', git: 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Core', ref: '9320bf557741d7ae80eda4415bc6fb2b0b3a8b9c'

3- execute bundle install
4- from now on use bundle exec pod install instead of pod install to install the pods

Bonus: use platform :visionos, '1.0' in Podfile , no upeercases

[mojavad]

Has this been released into Cocoapods? Still not recognising visionos after an update to my Cocoapods.

[futuretap]

How is this supposed to work for a target supporting both iOS and visionOS? The platform parameter only accepts one OS and specifying two platform lines fails with "The target xyz already has a platform set".

[gabrieldonadel]

How is this supposed to work for a target supporting both iOS and visionOS? The platform parameter only accepts one OS and specifying two platform lines fails with "The target xyz already has a platform set".

You can just create a different target for each platform

[futuretap]

Hm, but my main app target supports both iOS and visionOS. (Specifically, SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS is iphoneos iphonesimulator xros xrsimulator.) When I specify MainApp_iOS and MainApp_visionOS as targets in the Podfile, how can it integrate those into my MainApp?

[Saadnajmi]

@gabrieldonadel it happens kinda ad hoc with the free time of folks. No actual date. I do wish to land the SPM PRs that are open to add support for SPM dependencies into cocoapods.

It would be a good feature along side visionOS for a release as well as unblock Swift Macros (via SPM) for CocoaPods.

@dnkoutso Would it be possible to have a release with visionOS support sooner? That would make it easier for libraries to officially support visionOS rather than maintain a branch that targets cocoapods' master branch. I understand it's based on the free time of maintainers, I just wanted to express my desire for visionOS support sooner.

Also, thank you to the CocoaPods team for continuing to maintain! I'm excited about SPM support in the future :D