As of Xcode 15, Apple supports adding Privacy Manifests to SDKs. We develop an SDK that consists of several components (frameworks) for which we would like to add a Privacy Manifest. That works fine for our local builds, but we distribute our SDK via CocoaPods, which generates a single framework with the sources of all our components. This single framework currently does not have a Privacy Manifest.
How would we be able to provide Privacy Manifests when using CocoaPods for distribution?
I believe we can do this: in the .podspec file of your CocoaPods, add xcprivacy to spec.source_files. For example, spec.source_files = 'Source/**/*.{h,m,swift,xcprivacy}'
After pod install, the .xcprivacy file is in both the pod directory and pod target.
We're already doing that to include the privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) in the sources we provide.
However, Xcode does not add this manifest into the (aggregated) privacy report, so App developers will (unfortunately) have to check this privacy manifest themselves (manually).
We're looking for a way to get the privacy manifest included in the privacy report, when using CocoaPods.
you can do like this via cocoapods spec.resource_bundles = {'PodName' => ['Source/*.xcprivacy']}
I had the same problem. Does the source code library require a privacy list, and how do I add it
Anyone has any idea on how to achieve this? Afnetworking is now listed but this is is now archived, how would one go about adding manifest file for this?
The generated privacy report only includes nutrition labels from dynamics libraries and SDK resource bundles. If the privacy manifest file is in a static library instead of in a associated bundle, then the privacy report generator is not able to find it.
If the 3rd party SDK is integrated as source code and its privacy manifest is not in a bundle, then the SDK privacy manifest might overwrite the app privacy manifest in the product app package.
try cocoapods-privacy! you can use this auto manager NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes for cocoapods component and project. https://github.com/ymoyao/cocoapods-privacy