framework not found GoogleMobileAds

Question

I've an iOS application that has been up on the App Store for about 6 months now and everything worked fine. But when I updated my Xcode to 11.1 I'm getting errors.

I'm getting this kind of error

framework not found GoogleMobileAds

And here is the error message I'm getting in Xcode.

Ld /Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/MyDogwalk.app/MyDogwalk normal arm64 (in target 'MyDogwalk' from project 'MyDogwalk') cd /Users/puttemac/Desktop/MyDogwalk-ios/MyDogwalk /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -target arm64-apple-ios11.0 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS13.1.sdk -L/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/BoringSSL-GRPC -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseAuth -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseCore -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseCoreDiagnostics -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseDatabase -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseFirestore -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseInstanceID -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseStorage -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/GTMSessionFetcher -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/GoogleDataTransport -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/GoogleDataTransportCCTSupport -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/GoogleUtilities -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Kingfisher -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Protobuf -F/Users/puttemac/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyDogwalk-eiogfpjopcpzxaalyodbyllsajwn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/gRPC-C++ 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What have I tried?

• I've reinstalled CocoaPods
• I've reinstalled the GoogleMobileAds pod 100 times.
• I've downloaded the newest GoogleService-info.plist

After I reinstalled the GoogleMobileAds I got everything to work fine. But once I restarted Xcode / the MacBook it was all gone again. And the same error appeared.

Note: If I click on the General tab and scrolls down to Framework, Libraries and Embedded Content and tries to add the GoogleAdMob to it, I cannot find it.

How can I do to fix this error? And why does it appear?

Answer 1

I fixed it by completely removing Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK from project and then reinstalling it again. After that I deleted derived data, cleaned project and ran successfully.

The issue was that this library was too old and I forced an upgrade by installing newer pod version and updated the code, but seems like it left something in the project that should not be there anymore and causes these issues.

Answer 2

You may want to delete your DerivedData folder (Xcode will recreate it).

Answer 3

What version of GoogleMobileAds are you installing? In the release note, support for iOS 13 starts at 7.50.0.

Also make sure you are using the latest CocoaPods version.