Error importing Google Analytics iOS SDK using Cocoa Pods

Question

At first I imported Google Analytics iOS SDK directly and everything worked. Then I started using cocoa pods to manage all of my external libraries and getting this error.

Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_GAI", referenced from:
  objc-class-ref in AppDelegate.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Looks like Cocoa Pods isn't importing required libraries?

This might have to do something with the fact that initially I imported Google Analytics SDK directly into the project (which worked) and then switched to using Cocoa Pods. Is it possible that the old configuration conflicts with the new one? — Andrei Taraschuk, Nov 26 '13 at 21:05

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '13 at 18:13

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As it turned out in some cases it might be necessary to manually import library into the project. In my case I had to drop libGoogleAnalyticsServices.a into Build Phases. Just locate .a file in finder and drop it into the project.

For more details see https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/225 and https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/844.

answered Nov 28 '13 at 18:13

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I did this with Flurry Analytics and it worked, but when I try to import Google Analytics manually, Xcode crashes, have you experienced this issue? – Erick Filho Mar 05 '14 at 13:31
I have to do one more thing, that is adding `-lGoogleAnalyticsServices` to `Other Linker Flags` in `Build Settings`. – Protocole Sep 04 '14 at 06:43
its now just `-lGoogleAnalytics` – Tyler Apr 19 '16 at 19:35

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '17 at 12:04

Upgrade your GoogleAnalytics sdk using pod.

Open terminal
Go to your project directory
Write pod init
Open the podfile created in your project directory

Write the following lines

platform :ios, '10.0'

target “GoogleAnalyticsTestApp” do
   pod 'GoogleAnalytics'
   pod 'GoogleIDFASupport'
end

This will resolve the error. From the following links you can add Google's Api:

1.http://cocoapods.org/pods/GoogleAnalytics

2.http://developers.google.com/ios/guides/cocoapods

Error importing Google Analytics iOS SDK using Cocoa Pods

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