Developing a Swift package in tandem with an app

Overview

Swift packages are a convenient and lightweight solution for creating a modular app architecture and reusing code across your apps or with other developers. Over time, you may want to develop your published Swift package in tandem with your app, or create a sample app to showcase its features. To develop a Swift package in tandem with an app, you can leverage the behavior whereby a local package overrides a package dependency with the same name:

1. Add the Swift package to your app as a package dependency instead of a local package, as described in Editing a package dependency as a local package.

2. Develop your app and your Swift package in tandem, and push changes to their repositories.

3. If you release a new version of your Swift package or want to stop using the local package, remove it from the project to use the package dependency again.

See Also

Package creation

• Creating a standalone Swift package with Xcode
• Bundling resources with a Swift package
• Localizing package resources
• Distributing binary frameworks as Swift packages
• Organizing your code with local packages
• PackageDescription