Integrating PSPDFKit Using CocoaPods

PSPDFKit is available via CocoaPods. We provide a URL for the Podspec so that you can integrate PSPDFKit with minimal effort, either pinning to a specific version or always getting the latest stable release. If you’re new to CocoaPods, this Getting Started guide will help you.

ℹ️ Note: Please don’t follow our manual integration guide if you’re using CocoaPods.

❗Important: Please make sure you have a CocoaPods version >= 1.10.0 installed. You can check your version of CocoaPods with pod --version.

Read on to see what you have to add to your Podfile.

Always Use the Latest Release:

use_frameworks!

target :YourTargetName do
  pod 'PSPDFKit',
      podspec: 'https://customers.pspdfkit.com/pspdfkit-ios/latest.podspec'
end

Pinning to a Specific Version (e.g. 10.0.0):

use_frameworks!

target :YourTargetName do
  pod 'PSPDFKit',
      podspec: 'https://customers.pspdfkit.com/pspdfkit-ios/10.0.0.podspec'
end

Once you’ve completed the steps above, run pod install. Try the demo to get started on the integration.

Use Nightly Test Builds

If you have an active license subscription, we can enable access to nightlies on CocoaPods. Once that is done, replace latest.podspec with nightly.podspec to point to the latest nightly build.

Use a JSON Podspec

CocoaPods makes a checksum of the JSON representation of your Podspec and keeps it in your Podfile.lock file. If your development environment requires you to use a JSON Podspec, you can append .json to your CocoaPods URL, like so:

use_frameworks!

target :YourTargetName do
  pod 'PSPDFKit',
      podspec: 'https://customers.pspdfkit.com/pspdfkit-ios/latest.podspec.json'
end

To learn more about Podspec checksums, please take a look at the Why does my team’s Podfile.lock Podspec checksums change? blog post.

Use Fat Frameworks Instead of XCFrameworks

In PSPDFKit 9.4 for iOS, we started offering XCFrameworks as CocoaPods artifacts. If your project environment requires you to use old fat .framework files instead, you can append -framework to the version number of your CocoaPods URL, like so:

use_frameworks!

target :YourTargetName do
  pod 'PSPDFKit',
      podspec:
        'https://customers.pspdfkit.com/pspdfkit-ios/latest-framework.podspec'
end

dSYM Support

In PSPDFKit 7.0.3 for iOS, we added dSYM support for CocoaPods for all frameworks. CocoaPods will automatically pick up the dSYMs for improved symbolication. CocoaPods 1.3.0 or later is required.

Test Targets

You can add PSPDFKit to your test targets like this:

target :YourTargetNameTests do
  pod 'PSPDFKit',
      podspec: 'https://customers.pspdfkit.com/pspdfkit-ios/latest.podspec'
end

You can also use CocoaPods inheritance mode to inherit all of your main target’s dependencies by using inherit! :complete, like so:

target :YourTargetNameTests do
  inherit! :complete
end