Plaid Link iOS for Swift Package Manager

This repository provides Swift Package Manager support for plaid-link-ios, allowing you to easily integrate Plaid's financial services into your iOS applications.

Installing Plaid Link

To install Plaid Link using Swift Package Manager you can follow the tutorial published by Apple using the URL for this repository with the current version:

1. In Xcode, select “File” → “Add Packages...”
2. Enter https://github.com/plaid/plaid-link-ios-spm.git

Alternatively, you can add the following dependency to your Package.swift file:

.package(url: "https://github.com/plaid/plaid-link-ios-spm.git", from: "5.6.0")

Why is there a separate repository for Swift Package Manager support?

The main git repository for plaid-link-ios is very large (~1 GB), and Swift Package Manager always downloads the full repository with all git history. This plaid-link-ios-spm repository is much smaller (less than 500kb), so can be downloaded much more quickly.

Instead of downloading the full git history of Plaid Link iOS and building it from source, this repository just contains a pointer to the precompiled XCFramework included in the latest plaid-link-ios release (typically ~20MB). Since plaid-link-ios doesn't provide source code it's strongly recommended that users depend on plaid-link-ios-spm instead.

When using plaid-link-ios-spm, the downloaded LinkKit.xframework isn't visible in the project navigator. To validate the authenticity of a plaid-link-ios-spm package, you can confirm that the Package.swift file references a binary XCFramework from https://github.com/plaid/plaid-link-ios/releases.

Additional Support

📱 The plaid-link-ios repository contains multiple sample applications (requiring Xcode 14) that demonstrate integration and use of Plaid Link for iOS.

• Swift+UIKit
• Swift+SwiftUI
• Objective-C

📚 Detailed instructions on how to integrate with Plaid Link for iOS can be found in our main documentation at plaid.com/docs/link/ios.