This repo supports the article "Why XCFrameworks Matter" on the Rightpoint Blog. This article illustrates why XCFrameworks are preferred over universal frameworks going forward, and shows how one might build their own using the terminal.
There's a very simple Xcode project in here that builds an iOS framework. build_framework.sh shows the process of creating a Universal Framework from this codebase supporting iOS and the iOS Simulator. It also shows the newer, preferred process of assembling an XCFramework that supports iOS, iOS Simulator, Catalyst, and MacOS.
- Open the Xcode project and replace the signing info with your own.
- Open the terminal at the repo root and run
sh ./build_xcframework.sh.
The output will be ExampleLibrary.xcframework and ExampleLibrary.framework in the repo root.
The Xcode project is very, very simple if you want to reproduce it. All I did was make a new iOS Framework project using the "New Project" wizard in Xcode, add my signing info, and add a single Swift file.