Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s good to know that Apple is working on replacement of the current loved and hated package managers in the iOS development world those are CocoaPodsand Carthage. In this article, we will cover basics of package management & deep dive into package management in iOS especially Swift Package Manager.
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Swift is being a server side language Swift Package Manager is expected to work on both Linux and macOS. There won’t be any restriction of having macOS to build and distribute Swift packages.
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SwiftPM is not only package manager but also Build and Test tool. Swift Package Manager can also run on Linux as well as macOS. Swift Package Manager is
Swift Package Manager is already installed if we have Xcode 8.0 Or Swift3 on macOS or Linux. As Swift became server side, we can build it on the Docker containers like IBM Swift3 Ubuntu Docker image to build Swift packages. To Check version of Swift
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Swift Package has command to generate Xcode project from the source code so that we can use Xcode for autocompletion etc etc
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This will open our Swift package in the Xcode. Now we can use awesome features of Xcode like autocompletion, syntax highlighting etc
There are few steps to setup Xcode to fully work with Swift Package. Please follow this article to get Xcode and Swift Package Manager working together.
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