[CB-11233] Support installing frameworks into "Embedded Binaries" section of the Xcode project

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cordova-ios@4.4.0, cordova@7.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Labels: cordova-7.0.0
• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
• Created: 09/May/16 19:44
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:44
• Resolved: 11/Apr/17 23:41

Description

Right now, this:

<framework src="Foo.framework" custom="true" />

.. links the framework statically into the program.

There needs to be a similar directive that will install the framework into the "Embedded Binaries" section of the Xcode project. Frameworks that are installed in the "Embedded Binaries" section are dynamically loaded when needed by your iOS program.

Two ways this can be done:
1. Overload the "custom" attribute (icky but we won't have to introduce a new attribute) to be a string, and the new value would be "dynamic"
2. Have a new "dynamic" attribute (boolean)

Issue Links

• is a parent of: CB-13533 Embedded binaries not correctly added to Xcode project
• is depended upon by: CB-12655 Add docs for embed attribute of <framework> tag
• is duplicated by: CB-12290 Custom iOS Framework Not Added to 'Embedded Binaries' Section in Xcode
• is related to: CB-10034 Plugins iOS Custom Frameworks are added to "Embedded Binaries" XCode project section by default
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #299
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #299
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #534
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #535