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Real-world example using CocoaPods

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Important

sharpie pod is now deprecated. For more information, see this GitHub issue.

New in version 3.0, Objective Sharpie supports binding CocoaPods, and even includes a command (sharpie pod) to make downloading, configuring, and building CocoaPods very easy. You should familiarize yourself with CocoaPods in general before using this feature.

Creating a binding for a CocoaPod

The sharpie pod command has one global option and two subcommands:

$ sharpie pod -help
usage: sharpie pod [OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND_OPTIONS]

Pod Options:
  -d, -dir DIR     Use DIR as the CocoaPods binding directory,
                   defaulting to the current directory

Available Commands:
  init         Initialize a new Xamarin C# CocoaPods binding project
  bind         Bind an existing Xamarin C# CocoaPods project

The init subcommand also has some useful help:

$ sharpie pod init -help
usage: sharpie pod init [INIT_OPTIONS] TARGET_SDK POD_SPEC_NAMES

Init Options:
  -f, -force       Initialize a new Podfile and run actions against
                   it even if one already exists

Multiple CocoaPod names and subspec names can be provided to init.

$ sharpie pod init ios AFNetworking
** Setting up CocoaPods master repo ...
   (this may take a while the first time)
** Searching for requested CocoaPods ...
** Working directory:
**   - Writing Podfile ...
**   - Installing CocoaPods ...
**     (running `pod install --no-integrate --no-repo-update`)
Analyzing dependencies
Downloading dependencies
Installing AFNetworking (2.6.0)
Generating Pods project
Sending stats
** 🍻 Success! You can now use other `sharpie podn`  commands.

Once your CocoaPod has been set up, you can now create the binding:

$ sharpie pod bind

This will result in the CocoaPod Xcode project being built and then evaluated and parsed by Objective Sharpie. A lot of console output will be generated, but should result in the binding definition at the end:

(... lots of build output ...)

Parsing 19 header files...

Binding...
  [write] ApiDefinitions.cs
  [write] StructsAndEnums.cs

Done.

Next steps

After generating the ApiDefinitions.cs and StructsAndEnums.cs files, take a look at the following documentation to generate an assembly to use in your apps: