I started analyzing wether it was worth reviving Shopster or not.

So first step into the plan: clone the project’s repo, and see what breaks.

For starters, I did not follow my own CocoaPods suggestion1, so the Pods folder is not part of the repository.

Luckily, Shopster’s Podfile is pretty short:

platform :ios, '7.0'

xcodeproj 'Groceries'

pod 'PSAlertView'
pod 'TestFlightSDK', '~> 3.0'
pod 'BlockAlertsAnd-ActionSheets', '~> 1.0'
pod 'FMMoveTableView'
pod 'OHAttributedLabel', '~> 3.4'

Apart from these Pods, we are using Crashlytics and AskingPoint, which I no longer would like to have in the app.

First step to fix the Podfile then: remove old dependencies (TestFlight was acquired by Apple long ago!) and adopt the new syntax. The resulting Podfile looks like this:

platform :ios, '7.0'

project 'Groceries'

target 'Shopster' do
    pod 'PSAlertView'
    pod 'BlockAlertsAnd-ActionSheets', '~> 1.0'
    pod 'FMMoveTableView'
    pod 'OHAttributedLabel', '~> 3.4'
end

This new Podfile has this warning: [!] OHAttributedLabel has been deprecated in favor of DTCoreText. I’ll deal with that later.

I also removed AskingPoint.framework. The project still fails to build. The pch (remember those?) is including <TestFlightSDK/TestFlight.h>, and of course, I’m initializing it in the AppDelegate and using it in a reporter class. Removing these makes the project build!

Current state: Shopster runs on the iOS 10 Simulator, just like it runs on my iPhone. All the low hanging fruit has been taken care of.

  1. No wonder why: the post is from May 2014, and Shopster is from June 2013. A testament of how can I change my opinion on tools usage in a year. ↩