How to use CocoaPods with multiple Framework subprojects

This is a great question and I've struggled with a similar situation. This is my PodFile:

platform :ios, '8.0'

workspace 'mygreatapp.xcworkspace'

project 'app/MyGreatApp/MyGreatApp.xcodeproj'
project 'platform/MyGreatFramework/MyGreatFramework.xcodeproj'

abstract_target 'This can say whatever you want' do

    target 'MyGreatApp' do
        project 'app/MyGreatApp/MyGreatApp.xcodeproj'
        pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.6.0'
        pod 'PromiseKit', '~> 1.5'
        pod 'PromiseKit/Join'
        pod 'KVOController', '~> 1.0'
        pod 'FLAnimatedImage', '~> 1.0'
        pod 'Crashlytics', '~> 3.3'
        pod 'SSZipArchive'
    end

    target 'MyGreatAppTests' do
        project 'app/MyGreatApp/MyGreatApp.xcodeproj'
        pod 'OCMock', '~> 3.1'
    end

    target 'MyGreatFramework' do
        project 'platform/MyGreatFramework/MyGreatFramework.xcodeproj'
        pod 'SSZipArchive'
    end

    target 'MyGreatFrameworkTests' do
        project 'platform/MyGreatFramework/MyGreatFramework.xcodeproj'
        pod 'OCMock', '~> 3.1'
    end

    post_install do |installer|
      installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
          config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'NO'
        end
      end
    end
end

As you can see I'm not using frameworks and I use an abstract_target to group it all together. I wish these kinds of dependencies were easier to do in CocoaPods. I know this doesn't really answer your question but it might be helpful nonetheless.

I think you can also get around this by just making FrameworkA and FrameworkB into local (static library) pods and it will de-duplicate everything for you and integrate it into the host app properly.

Examples: https://github.com/rob-keepsafe/PodFrameworksIssue

• master branch shows duplicate classes and umbrella frameworks like you have
• deduped branch makes the internal dynamic frameworks into local pods (as static libs) to de-dupe and still link in the dependencies