realm Installation and Setup Swift

Example

• Prerequisites

1. iOS 8 or later, macOS 10.9 or later, all versions of tvOS and watchOS.
2. Xcode 8.0 or later required. Realm Swift 2.3.0 was the last version to support Swift 2.x and Xcode 7.3.

• Installation

  • Dynamic Framework
  1. Download the latest release of Realm and extract the zip.
  2. Go to your Xcode project’s “General” settings. Drag RealmSwift.framework and Realm.framework from the appropriate Swift-versioned directory for your project in ios/, osx/, tvos/ or watchos/ directory to the “Embedded Binaries” section. Make sure Copy items if needed is selected (except if using Realm on multiple platforms in your project) and click Finish.
  3. In your unit test target’s “Build Settings”, add the parent path to RealmSwift.framework in the “Framework Search Paths” section.
  4. If using Realm in an iOS, tvOS or watchOS project, create a new “Run Script Phase” in your app’s target’s “Build Phases” and paste the following snippet in the script text field:

    bash "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${FRAMEWORKS_FOLDER_PATH}/Realm.framework/strip-frameworks.sh"
  

  This step is required to work around an App Store submission bug when archiving universal binaries.

  • CocoaPods
  1. Install CocoaPods 0.39.0 or later..
  2. Run pod repo update to make CocoaPods aware of the latest available Realm versions.
  3. In your Podfile, add use_frameworks! and pod 'RealmSwift' to your main and test targets.
  4. If using Xcode 8, paste the following at the bottom of your Podfile, updating the Swift version if necessary:

    post_install do |installer|
      installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
          config.build_settings['SWIFT_VERSION'] = '3.0'
        end
      end
    end
  

  5. From the command line, run pod install.
  6. Use the .xcworkspace file generated by CocoaPods to work on your project!
  • Carthage
  1. Install Carthage 0.17.0 or later.
  2. Add github "realm/realm-cocoa" to your Cartfile.
  3. Run carthage update.
  4. Drag RealmSwift.framework and Realm.framework from the appropriate platform directory in Carthage/Build/ to the “Linked Frameworks and Libraries” section of your Xcode project’s “General” settings.
  5. iOS/tvOS/watchOS: On your application targets’ “Build Phases” settings tab, click the “+” icon and choose “New Run Script Phase”. Create a Run Script with the following contents:

  /usr/local/bin/carthage copy-frameworks
  

  and add the paths to the frameworks you want to use under “Input Files”, e.g.:

  $(SRCROOT)/Carthage/Build/iOS/Realm.framework
  $(SRCROOT)/Carthage/Build/iOS/RealmSwift.framework
  

  This script works around an App Store submission bug triggered by universal binaries.