[iOS][Cocoapods] Podfile deployment-target is not updated on cordova prepare

Bug Report

Issue #468 was recently fixed, however the deployment-target preference only applies if you run cordova plugin add ... and not when running cordova prepare.

Problem

cordova prepare does not update the Podfile with the value specified in the config.xml deployment-target prefrence.

What is expected to happen?

The Podfile should contain the value specified in the config.xml deployment-target preference after running cordova prepare.

What does actually happen?

The Podfile is not updated with the value specified

Steps to reproduce

1. cordova create MyApp
2. Edit config.xml and set deployment-target preference

...
  <platform name="ios">
    ...
    <preference name="deployment-target" value="10.0" />
  </platform>
...

1. cordova platform add ios@5.0.0
2. View platforms/ios/Podfile. The iOS platform will be 10.0
3. Remove platforms and plugins folders
4. Run cordova prepare
5. View platforms/ios/Podfile. The iOS platform will be 9.0. I’d expect it to be 10, as specified in config.xml

Version information

Cordova iOS v5.0.0 Cordova CLI v9.0.0

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[jaybowman]

I’m still having this issue. I created a new cordova app and I have a custom plugin that uses podspec. using cordova-ios 6.1.1, cordova 10.0.0 using the config.xml deployment-target perferance value = 12.2 does not update the pod file when I do “cordova platform add ios” it is defaulting to ‘11.0’ and my pod framework has a minimum ios deployment target of 12. My plugin list: cordova-plugin-add-swift-support cordova-plugin-app-launcher cordova-plugin-device cordova-plugin-whitelist

[jacobg]

I’m also running into this issue. I’ll have to check if a build hook can add a pod post-install script to work around this bug: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37289688/1237919