[CB-7428] Enable Swift development of Plugins

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Erik Jan de Wit
• Created: 29/Aug/14 06:57
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:08
• Resolved: 17/Mar/15 05:40

Description

For developing plugins it would be nice to be able to use the Swift language. Right now this already works, but one needs to set some Xcode settings by hand:

• Deployment target needs to be 7.0
• Add the bridging header file to the 'Swift Compiler - Code Generation' options
• Add the Swift runtime to the search path (will probably not be needed for iOS8)

see example plugin https://github.com/edewit/cordova-plugin-hello/tree/swift

Issue Links

• depends upon: CB-8643 Drop iOS 6 support, minimum iOS 7
• relates to: CB-10071 Proposal: feature to merge Swift bridging headers