Xamarin-Bindings | Examples of how to bind Estimote SDKs to Xamarin | SDK library

I have a project with a slightly complex requirement, so let's start with the desired goal:

• The project is an SDK for interfacing with our back-end services (not an app)
• The project must output a .framework file that can be included in a Xamarin app (all of our internal apps are built with Xamarin)
• The project must be a proper CocoaPod with a .podspec file so that third parties can include the SDK in their own apps (customer request)
• The project depends on three third-party dependencies, one of which is delivered differently from the others:
  • CocoaLumberjack and JSONModel, when listed as dependencies in the Podfile or .podspec, will download their respective projects and include them in your own workspace as sub-projects, to be built
  • GoogleInterativeMediaAds, when listed as a dependency in the Podfile or .podspec, will download a .framework file and is completely closed-source
• The project must be able to build for both iOS and tvOS (we have apps and clients for both)
  • Note that while JSONModel and CocoaLumberjack both advertise that they have iOS and tvOS support, there are separate CocoaPods for the GoogleInteractiveMediaAds (GoogleAds-IMA-iOS-SDK ~> 3.9 and GoogleAds-IMA-tvOS-SDK ~> 4.0)
• Any .framework file output by the project must contain both embedded bitcode and be a fat binary
• The project has several static assets (PNG files and XIB files) that need to be included as a .bundle within the .framework

Now, then: I have all of this working. It took a long time and a lot of experimenting but I have a project that meets all of the above requirements. My Podfile looks like so:

Podfile