Building application from Github

[JMF]

I have downloaded the example application code from github (https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/IOS-Nordic-Thingy) and am trying to build it using the latest xcode development environment provided by Apple. In the instructions, it says to:

• Create/Update your Podfile with the following contents

target 'YourAppTargetName' do
    use_frameworks!
    pod 'IOSThingyLibrary', '~> 1.4.0'
end

• Install dependencies

pod install

• Open the newly created .xcworkspace
• Import the library to any of your classes by using import IOSThingyLibrary and begin working on your project

but it is unclear where to perform the above.  Is it done in the 'Example' subdirectory or the 'IOS-Nordic-Thingy' or some other directory? Afterwards, the user is instructed to edit the "newly created .xcworkspace" but there appear to be three different files like this located at:

./Example/ThingySDK.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace

./Example/Pods/Pods.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace

./Example/ThingySDK.xcworkspace

So I am not sure which is the correct one to open.

I would like to simply recreate the Thingy52 application based on the provided instructions but the instruction seem incomplete or simply not descriptive enough to replace. 

Can you provide a more complete set of instructions so that I am able to recreate the App?

Thank you! 

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

Hello,

The instructions you mentioned above are useful when you want to include Thingy library in your project. Then, in your project's Podfile you need to add reference to IOSThingyLibrary. Then, in classes that you need to use Thingy API, you put this import statement. But if you just want to compile the sample app, either clone the repo and open Example/ThigySDK.xcworkspace, or use

pod try IOSThingyLibrary

This will download the sample app and set up all dependencies. You may then open it in xcode by opening the same workspace file.


[JMF]

Thanks for the reply Aleksander, I did try the 'pod try IOSThingLibrary' previously and just tried again, when I do it says:

Jamess-Mac-mini:MyGithub jflynn$ pod try IOSThingyLibrary
Updating spec repositories

Trying IOSThingyLibrary
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

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### Command

```
/usr/local/bin/pod try IOSThingyLibrary
```

### Report

* What did you do?

* What did you expect to happen?

* What happened instead?


### Stack

```
   CocoaPods : 1.9.0.beta.2
        Ruby : ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.x86_64-darwin19]
    RubyGems : 3.0.3
        Host : Mac OS X 10.15.2 (19C57)
       Xcode :  ()
         Git : git version 2.24.0
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib
Repositories : trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/
```

### Plugins

```
cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats       : 1.1.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.4.1
cocoapods-try         : 1.1.0
```

### Error

```
NoMethodError - undefined method `root' for false:FalseClass
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/installer/pod_source_installer.rb:179:in `root_spec'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/installer/pod_source_installer.rb:192:in `predownloaded?'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/installer/pod_source_installer.rb:69:in `install!'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-try-1.1.0/lib/pod/command/try.rb:139:in `install_pod'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-try-1.1.0/lib/pod/command/try.rb:50:in `block in run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:118:in `title'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-try-1.1.0/lib/pod/command/try.rb:49:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:334:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:52:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.9.0.beta.2/bin/pod:55:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `<main>'
```

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Jamess-Mac-mini:MyGithub jflynn$ 

So this solution isn't working as you may expect it to be. Am I doing something wrong or is there something additional that needs to be installed to make this work?

I did clone the repository and used the workspace you mentioned, using this approach does work, but generates 101 warnings and wants to update to swift 5.  Do you know if there is any update available that corrects these warnings and has already been updated to swift 5?  I would like to use this project as a starting point for something I'm working on but would like to not have to go back and fix warnings and update to create a clean project.

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

The issue you are having is described here: https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods-try/issues/63 and seems it still hasn't been fixed. Instead, just clone the IOS-Pods-DFU-Library repo and launch the ./Example/ThingySDK.xcworkspace file in xcode.