Purpose

This is the foundational skill for every CometChat iOS UI Kit v5 integration. It teaches HOW CometChat works on iOS — initialization, login, the manager pattern, and anti-patterns — so you can write project-appropriate code instead of relying on templates.

Read this skill first, before any placement or component skill.

1. Installation

0. First — confirm a dependency manifest exists (or create one)

A freshly-created Xcode project (File → New → App from the GUI) ships no Podfile, no Package.swift, and no Swift Package Manager refs in *.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj. Before touching any of the integration code below, you MUST establish a dependency-management mechanism — otherwise import CometChatUIKitSwift will hit Unable to resolve module dependency: 'CometChatSDK' at the first build attempt and the entire integration is dead on arrival.

Detection:

cometchat-ios-core

Purpose

1. Installation

0. First — confirm a dependency manifest exists (or create one)