AppCenter doesn't seem to run pod install despite existence of Podfile

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I've got a react-native app that builds on AppCenter. I have a Podfile in my /ios directory, and locally, I can run pod install. The AppCenter documentation says that "App Center scans the selected branch and if it finds a Podfile, it will automatically do a pod install step at the beginning of every build. This will ensure that all dependencies are installed.", but as far as I can tell, it's not running pod install for my build and the build fails for that reason.

Tried adding pod install to a pre-build script, in which case the build succeeds.

Can you post a link to the doc where it says that it scans & run the `pod install` command? — Mihai Erős, Sep 26 '19 at 13:41
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/ios/first-build#38-cocoapods — caike, Sep 26 '19 at 19:30

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 25 '23 at 08:52

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It appears that in addition to having a Podfile, you must NOT have a ios/Pods folder present in the remote. In my case, I also had to explicitly add that folder to my .gitignore

edited Jul 25 '23 at 08:52

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answered Sep 26 '19 at 19:32

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '20 at 17:48

Make sure the Cocoapods version running on the build agent matches the one on your podfile.lock.

You can add a post clone script like this on your ios/ folder:

appcenter-post-clone.sh This will automatically install the matching cocoapods version.

Push that file to your repo, then make sure you open the build configuration and hit Save and Build.

AppCenter doesn't seem to run pod install despite existence of Podfile

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