Adding Google Objective-C API 'GTL' to iPhone project

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How to I add the Google Drive API to my iPhone project to I can use it?

So far, I have dragged the GTL project into my current app project (so that it is nested under my app project). Then, under my app target's build phases, I added GTL.framework, and then added GTL.framework to my 'Link binary with Libraries' (see attached pic). This throws the following error:

clang: error: no such file or directory: '/Users/xxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Golf-hfbczyaemhyzgvbrtgdxqnlzeuaa/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/GTL/GTL'

How to I fix this?

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After 3.5 years the steps are still confusing and frustrating, can't Google guys just make it little easier and straight forward? :/ — rohan-patel, Feb 01 '16 at 22:28

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '14 at 00:49

I struggled with this exact issue for most of the day today, and I found it extremely frustrating. I have finally figured it all out so here is a straightforward step by step guide on how to add the Google API to an iOS7 project using XCode5, using ARC, without having to create Workspaces or any of that.

The answer provided by RawMean works well, but it gave me issues with ARC. I also didn't like the fact that you had to add project, create a workspace and then delete the project. So my solution will deal with both these issues.

Check out the code. To do this, you can just run svn checkout http://google-api-objectivec-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ google-api-objectivec-client-read-only from your terminal. I will refer to this code as "Google's code".
Go to your project's Build Phases. Expand "Link Binary With Libraries" and add Security.framework and SystemConfiguration.framework. These two are required by Google's code.
Go to your project's Build Settings. Using the search box there, look for Other Linker Flags (make sure "All" is selected to the left of the search box). Add -ObjC -all_load.
Now search for User headers search path and add the full path to Goggle's /Source directory. Make sure you select recursive.
Using Finder, go to Google's /Source/OAuth2/Touch directory. Drag and drop GTMOAuth2ViewTouch.xib into your project.
Go back to Finder and go to Google's /Source directory. Drag and drop GTLCommon_Sources.m and GTLCommon_Networking.m into your project.
Now, you need to import the files for the services you want to use. In my case, I need to use Google Drive, so I'll add those. In finder, go to Google's /Source/Services/Drive/Generated directory. Drag and drop GTLDrive.h and GTLDrive_Sources.m into your project. If you want to use other services, go to their directory and import the appropriate .h and .m file.
For some reason, Google's code doesn't use ARC, so if you try to build right now, you will get ARC compile errors. So we need to disable ARC for Google's code only. To do this, go back to your project's Build Phases, but this time expand "Compile Sources". Make sure that GTLCommon_Sources.m and GTLCommon_Networking.m are there. Select them, press enter and type in -fno-objc-arc. This will disable ARC for both of them. Make sure you don't add this option for any other file (unless you know what you're doing).
You are done! Now, whenever you want to use Google's API, just import GTMOAuth2ViewControllerTouch.h and your service header. In my case, since I'm using Google Drive, I will also import GTLDrive.h.

I hope that helps and saves some people from pulling all their hair out.

This works with Swift please see my answer for details http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24082606/google-objective-c-api-gtl-with-swift/24114960#24114960 — Ryan Heitner, Jun 09 '14 at 06:43
You are an absolutely saviour! Thank you very much. Got this working after 2 hours of struggle following Google's official documentation. Thanks once again. — Salman Hasrat Khan, Jul 18 '14 at 12:10
Also make sure you go into the "GTLNetworking_Sources" class and change GTMOAuth2ViewControllerTouch.m to GTMOAuth2ViewControllerTouch.h — What what, Jul 27 '14 at 16:21
I followed your steps just because you were very thorough, which is hard to find on stackoverflow. Sorry it did not help me, but +1 for good instructional writing. — Boris Gafurov, Jan 14 '16 at 16:48

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '12 at 19:53

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I struggled with this error message as well. This is how I solved it:

Make sure you have added the folder for the service that you are using under GTLSource/Common/ (e.g., add the Drive folder for GoogleDrive).

Under GTL.xcodeproj (that you have already added to your workspace) find the GTLSource folder and drag it to your main project (Golf in your case). Done!

Now you can remove references to the GTL.xcodeproj that you have added to the workspace.

With this approach, you don't even need to add the libraries (so remove them from the list of linked libraries if you have added them).

The Google API documentation is nothing like Apple's documentation (it's not good).

I should also mention that I'm building an app for iOS and not MacOSX, but this should work for OSX as well.

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answered Jul 07 '12 at 19:53

RawMean

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I encountered this problem again and having forgotten that I've solved it before, landed on this page w/o realizing that I have actually posted this solution :) – RawMean Jun 25 '13 at 22:23
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For a Swift solution use Rob's answer and see my own http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24082606/google-objective-c-api-gtl-with-swift/24114960#24114960 – Ryan Heitner Jun 09 '14 at 06:45
@RawMean what exactly did you mean by "Make sure you have added the folder for the service that you are using under GTLSource/Common/ (e.g., add the Drive folder for GoogleDrive)." What goes in that Drive folder? – Boris Gafurov Jan 14 '16 at 15:55
TNX A LOT, it worked, though it complained that "OSX xibs do not support target device 'ipad'" (I use XCode7.1.1) - I just removed references to Mac folder in GTL Source\Common\OAuth2, leaving only Touch. – Boris Gafurov Jan 14 '16 at 16:57
@BorisGafurov If you are using GoogleDrive, the Drive folder should contain the files in the SDK that correspond to GoogleDrive service. Another way of saying that is that you can remove folders for all the google services except the one that you are actually using (to reduce the size of your app). Regarding removing the references to the Mac folder: yes, that's what I did as well to get rid of that error. – RawMean Jan 14 '16 at 19:48

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 26 '13 at 04:37

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Not only doing the above, but go under "[Project Name] Targets->Build Phases> Compile Sources" and click the + button. Then add all the .m files, for some reason most of the aren't automatically.

I also had to delete (the reference) to "GTLDrive_Souces.m" from the Drive folder, but I don't understand why i had to do that part.

answered May 26 '13 at 04:37

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"Not only doing the above?" I don't understand what you mean. There is a lot of stuff above your answer. – Kaydell Sep 29 '15 at 02:14

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 19 '15 at 03:20

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Better to use Pod

How to install CocoaPods and setup with your Xcode project for reference : [http://blogs.triffort.com/?p=309][1]

Open the pod file and add

pod 'Google-API-Client/Drive', '~> 1.0' save pod file and call pod install in terminal. Note:pod file you must give link_with 'Your_project_name', 'Your_project_nameTests' after this line only add your library

answered May 19 '15 at 03:20

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how're you importing the files `GTMOAuth2ViewControllerTouch.h` and `GTLDrive.h` into your project with cocoapods? I'm not able to use any import statement and I'm not finding which module to import. – KVISH Oct 07 '15 at 01:14
@KVISH:Currently what u did ? did u opened .workspace or .xcodeproject ? – Adarsh G J Oct 08 '15 at 05:00
This is an old answer, use the official pod. See: https://github.com/google/google-api-objectivec-client/issues/103#issuecomment-202017387 – emem Mar 30 '16 at 15:26

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 10:09

this is does not really solve the problem of installing Google API's but in this repo I accessed Google Forms from an iOS app without using Google's API. https://github.com/goktugyil/QorumLogs

So you may skip the installing API part in some projects

Here is the tutorial of how to set it up: https://github.com/goktugyil/QorumLogs/blob/master/Log%20To%20GoogleDocs.md

Heres the code to do it:

private static var googleFormLink: String!
private static var googleFormAppVersionField: String!
private static var googleFormUserInfoField: String!
private static var googleFormMethodInfoField: String!
private static var googleFormErrorTextField: String!

/// Setup Google Form links
static func setupOnlineLogs(#formLink: String, versionField: String, userInfoField: String, methodInfoField: String, textField: String) {
    googleFormLink = formLink
    googleFormAppVersionField = versionField
    googleFormUserInfoField = userInfoField
    googleFormMethodInfoField = methodInfoField
    googleFormErrorTextField = textField
}

private static func sendError(#text: String) {
    var url = NSURL(string: googleFormLink)
    var postData = googleFormAppVersionField + "=" + text
    postData += "&" + googleFormUserInfoField + "=" + "anothertext"                
    postData += "&" + googleFormMethodInfoField + "=" + "anothertext" 
    postData += "&" + googleFormErrorTextField + "=" + "anothertext" 

    var request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url!)
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
    request.setValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    request.HTTPBody = postData.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    var connection = NSURLConnection(request: request, delegate: nil, startImmediately: true)
}

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