I was able to reproduce this issue with the project generated by Xcode 10.1. I used Swift 4.2 and CocoaPods 1.10.0 as a dependency manager. I had the following Podfile:
# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '10.0'
target 'MyApp' do
# Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
use_frameworks!
# Pods for MyApp
pod 'Alamofire', '4.8.1'
target 'MyAppTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
# Pods for testing
end
target 'MyAppUITests' do
inherit! :search_paths
# Pods for testing
end
end
Then I removed use_frameworks!, see this link for more details:
# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '10.0'
target 'MyApp' do
# Pods for MyApp
pod 'Alamofire', '4.8.1'
target 'MyAppTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
# Pods for testing
end
target 'MyAppUITests' do
inherit! :search_paths
# Pods for testing
end
end
I also received some warnings like this:
[!] The `MyAppUITests [Debug]` target overrides the `ALWAYS_EMBED_SWIFT_STANDARD_LIBRARIES` build setting defined in `Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-MyApp-MyAppUITests/Pods-MyApp-MyAppUITests.debug.xcconfig'. This can lead to problems with the CocoaPods installation
- Use the `$(inherited)` flag, or
- Remove the build settings from the target.
That's why I removed this line from the MyAppUITests build settings:
After that run pod deintegrate && pod install and then the problem disappeared.
Probably for projects with more dependencies (like here) you need to use another solution.
Check that the deployment target in your UITest target Build Settings is set to the same as the host application you are trying to test. In my case, I added the UITesting target later on, and it created it with a default of deployment target iOS 12. If you then try to run the UITest on iOS lower than 12, it gave me the error mentioned in the question.
What solved my problem was following the following steps:
1) delete the UITests target from the pod file.
Initially, I had the following in the pod file:
target 'XUITests' do
inherit! :search_paths
end
2) Deintegrate the pods (with pod deintegrate)
3) Install the pods (with pod install)
4) Clean your project and run the project or your UITest
In my case, I needed to separate the UI tests target with use_frameworks!.
Moving the UI tests target from nested structure to its own will not help, if you specified use_frameworks! globally somewhere in the top of the Podfile.
The Podfile with error (original):
platform :ios, '10.0'
inhibit_all_warnings!
use_frameworks!
target 'MyProject' do
pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
# and other pods
target 'MyProjectTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
end
target 'MyProjectUITests' do
inherit! :search_paths
end
end
The Podfile with error (first try to fix):
platform :ios, '10.0'
inhibit_all_warnings!
use_frameworks!
def shared_pods
pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
end
target 'MyProject' do
shared_pods
pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
# and other pods
target 'MyProjectTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
end
end
target 'MyProjectUITests' do
shared_pods
end
The final working Podfile:
platform :ios, '10.0'
inhibit_all_warnings!
def shared_pods
pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
end
target 'MyProject' do
use_frameworks!
shared_pods
pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
# and other pods
target 'MyProjectTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
end
end
target 'MyProjectUITests' do
shared_pods
end
For me, the error was when build the UITests.
The solution:
The Targer was with a wrong iOS version, I replace with the same version that the tested Target and everything works!!
This error happened to me when I added a framework to the project (that's a framework itself, too), and tried to run the tests. I made it optional instead of required, and the tests succeeded.
Xcode 11.2 using Apollo framework within another framework. Instead of changing to optional/required, I fixed it by setting to embed.
With this specific error:
The bundle “XXX” couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing
necessary resources. Try reinstalling the bundle. Library not loaded:
@rpath/Apollo.framework/Apollo
For me, this problem was caused by me referencing a property from an extension on a UIKit class from a framework which wasn't imported in the file where it was referenced. Fixed by not using that property. I'm not sure why it compiled in the first place - that should have been a compile-time error, not a runtime error.
I saw the answer but without an explanation so decided to post mine.
The issue is that UI tests performed in a separate application that controls the main one and so it can't use the main application's frameworks and so if you just inherit paths to frameworks using Cocoapods UI tests app will crash at the startup.
To fix the issue you need to actually copy frameworks to UI tests app or update your Podfile:
use_frameworks!
target 'App' do
pod 'Alamofire'
target 'App_UnitTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
pod 'Quick'
pod 'Nimble'
end
end
target 'App_UITests' do
pod 'Alamofire'
end
For anyone encountering this issue using Carthage, I solved it by adding the /usr/local/bin/carthage copy-frameworks run script phase to the UITest target (rather than just my main app target), and added the framework as an input file.