{"id":8312,"date":"2014-01-16T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T18:18:34","slug":"ios-needs-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/ios-needs-frameworks\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Needs Frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/landonf.bikemonkey.org\/code\/ios\/Radar_15800975_iOS_Frameworks.20140112.html\">Landon Fuller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/landonf.bikemonkey.org\/code\/ios\/Radar_15800975_iOS_Frameworks.20140112.html\"><p>Nearly six years later, we still don&rsquo;t have a solution on-par with Mac OS X frameworks for distributing libraries, and in my experience, this has introduced unnecessary cost and complexity across the entire ecosystem of iOS development.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s been nearly 7 years since the introduction of iPhoneOS. iOS needs real frameworks, and moreover, iOS needs multiple-platform frameworks, with support for bundling Simulator, Device, and Mac binaries&mdash;along with their resources, headers, and related content&mdash;into a single atomic distribution bundle that applications developers can drag and drop into their projects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2014-01-29): <a href=\"http:\/\/subjectiveobserver.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/29\/ios-frameworks-2\/\">Andrew Pontious<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/subjectiveobserver.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/29\/ios-frameworks-2\/\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/developers\/sync\/sdks\/ios\">Dropbox SDK<\/a> has a sample project in it which just has a single reference to the Dropbox.framework, both in the Project Navigator and in the &ldquo;Link Binaries with Libraries&rdquo; Xcode build phase. And while there is a custom <em>framework<\/em> search path in the project&rsquo;s build settings, there&rsquo;s no custom library search path or header search path. And the headers are available via the usual <code>#import &lt;Framework\/Header.h&gt;<\/code> format.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landon Fuller: Nearly six years later, we still don&rsquo;t have a solution on-par with Mac OS X frameworks for distributing libraries, and in my experience, this has introduced unnecessary cost and complexity across the entire ecosystem of iOS development.[&#8230;]It&rsquo;s been nearly 7 years since the introduction of iPhoneOS. iOS needs real frameworks, and moreover, iOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,31,71],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-developertool","tag-ios","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8399,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}