Google/Analytics.h file not found when adding to AppDelegate

Question

I am trying to integrate Google Analytics in my ios project using Cocoapods. However, after following this for the steps till adding configuration file to my project, when importing the Google/Analytics.h in AppDelegate I get error for file not found. Tried following things:

Added $(SRCROOT)/Pods/GoogleAnalytics to User Header Search Paths in Build Settings.
Added libGoogleAnalyticsServices.a to link binary with libraries in build phases.
Added -lGoogleAnalyticsServices in Other Linker Flags.

Don't really want to do 2 and 3 as they make it free from Cocoapods.

What exactly am I missing?

I did drag and drop it to supported files in project. I am re-installing the pod files for the project. Let me get back. — tech savvy, Jul 15 '15 at 10:02
does the pod install takes a lot of time? How many MBs is it approx? — tech savvy, Jul 15 '15 at 10:32

paul · Answer 1 · 2018-04-04T15:15:52.523

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With version 3.17.0 (installed using pod 'GoogleAnalytics' in Podfile):

Open yourproject.xcworkspace instead of yourproject.xcodeproj
Use #import <GoogleAnalytics/GAI.h> in the bridging header file

Edit: Per jeremy piednoel's comment you may also need

#import <GoogleAnalytics/GAIDictionaryBuilder.h>
#import <GoogleAnalytics/GAIFields.h>

edited Apr 04 '18 at 15:15

answered Sep 10 '17 at 01:18

paul

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Saved me a couple of hours. Thanks. – Trein Sep 11 '17 at 00:02
Save me tons of time as well. – TuanCM Sep 21 '17 at 04:16
Thanks so much! I already spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why the import statement was failing, but this saved tons more head-scratching investigation. – Yun Oct 08 '17 at 04:47
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It's crazy how bad is the google doc ... Personally i had to add more than that #import #import #import – Jeremy Piednoel Nov 03 '17 at 17:09
Thx a lot Paul and @jeremy-piednoel . I confirm that we need to import 3 of these line. – Pokotuz Jan 12 '18 at 09:26

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '15 at 06:11

Problems

The code examples on the official documentation suggest installing 1.0.0. Which doesn't even have binaries compiled for arm64.
There seem to be at least three separate pods related to GA. GoogleAnalytics-iOS-SDK, GoogleAnalytics, Google/Analytics.

Solution

Add this to your Podfile: pod 'Google/Analytics' and then pod install.

That should work. Now you can simply import Google/Analytics.h as suggested in the docs:

#import <Google/Analytics.h>

Further Discussion

There were two sets of issues that I ran into:

When using the incorrect suggested pod version (1.0.0), was a 64-bit compatibility issue. (ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64)
When using the other pods (GoogleAnalytics-iOS-SDK and GoogleAnalytics) I had complaints of a missing <Google/Analytics.h> header file. ("Google/Analytics.h" not found)

I found this gentleman's post on a mailing list which suggested the Google/Analytics pod with no version number. (pod 'Google/Analytics' as noted above.)

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '15 at 03:51

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This is a bug in cocoapods.

you need to add $(SRCROOT)/Pods/Google and $(SRCROOT)/Pods/GoogleAnalytics with recursive option to your User Header Search Paths.

Then include the #import "Analytics.h" instead of #import

answered Sep 02 '15 at 03:51

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If using this setup, use #import – spezzino Oct 22 '15 at 20:56
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This solution works for me (Cocoapods 0.39.0), using `#import "Analytics.h"` Xcode 7.1 (7B91b) – Lepi Jan 08 '16 at 16:06
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It forked for only after I set `recursive` for this paths – fnc12 Dec 22 '16 at 05:10
It actually works with xCode 9 and #import "Analytics.h" with this setup in User Header Search Paths – Oct 04 '17 at 14:43

sahara108 · Answer 4 · 2016-11-16T03:50:55.893

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When you add $(SRCROOT)/Pods/GoogleAnalytics to User Header Search Paths in Build Settings, also select recursive option. It will allow your project to search in GoogleAnalytics and all of its sub-directories.

UPDATED: I have tried the tutorial and it works fine without any extra step. My pod version is 0.35.0. When you create configuration file, remember to enable GoogleAnalytics service.

UPDATED: As @RajatTalwar pointed out, you also need to add $(SRCROOT)/Pods/Google with recursive option. Then include the #import "Analytics.h" instead of #import

edited Nov 16 '16 at 03:50

answered Jul 15 '15 at 10:37

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Did that... although this shall not help in cocoapods installation for analytics... – tech savvy Jul 15 '15 at 11:18
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you also need to add $(SRCROOT)/Pods/Google with recursive option. Then include the #import "Analytics.h" instead of #import – Rajat Talwar Sep 02 '15 at 03:46
@RajatTalwar Thank you! That helped me. I'm on Cocoapods 1.1.1. – Shinigami Nov 16 '16 at 02:52

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 21 '15 at 17:31

If anyone else out there is having an error with trying to #import <Google/Analytics.h>, and the other solutions online aren't helping you, you should read on.

I was having this problem and none of the solutions I found would fix it. Then I noticed that one of my targets worked while the other one did not (I had two in the same project), and I tried to track down what was the difference between the two targets.

I noticed that there was a difference in the project on the General tab under Deployment info, where the second target (the one which worked) had separate options for iPhone and iPad, but the first did not. Someone else online said that they received these two new options when they duplicated their target. My second target was also a duplicate of the first, originally.

To make a long story short, I found that if I duplicated my target that the duplicate now suddenly worked. Those separate iPhone and iPad options also magically appeared. So I guess my project target was non-standard and causing a problem, probably because this project was created a long time ago.

I then just deleted the original target and renamed the new one to be the same name, although there was some cleanup work required in the build settings related to the plist file (it made a copy.plist file).

Hope this helps someone.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 18 '16 at 15:54

Check if you have multiple targets, in this case add pod 'Google/Analytics' foreach target in you pod file:

def google_pods
pod 'Google/Analytics'
end

target 'target 1' do
    google_pods
end

target 'target 2' do
    google_pods
end

target 'target N' do
    google_pods
end

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 24 '18 at 08:34

Also my $0.02 to this, since it seems to be a never ending story. None of the suggestions above did help. I got this obscure message from pod install

[!] The `blabla [Release]` target overrides the `HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS` build setting defined in `Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-blabla/Pods-blabla.release.xcconfig'. This can lead to problems with the CocoaPods installation

Finally I inspected my project.pxbprojand found, that I had this entry:

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "";`

Obviously this is treated as "defined", so I changed it to

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "$(inherited)";

and boom - all the Google suggested includes work

#import <GoogleAnalytics/GAI.h>
#import <GoogleAnalytics/GAIDictionaryBuilder.h>
#import <GoogleAnalytics/GAIFields.h>

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 18 '20 at 20:47

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Run pod update
Clean Build Files
Run Project

answered May 18 '20 at 20:47

Farwa

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 04 '22 at 11:46

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remove valid archs from build settings

answered Mar 04 '22 at 11:46

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Google/Analytics.h file not found when adding to AppDelegate

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