Flutter App not Building for iOS

Hey, Since I set up push notifications for my Flutter app following this tutorial https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/flutter-sdk-setup, my Flutter app no ​​longer builds for iOS in the CD pipeline. I get the following error:

[17:24:47]: ▸ ProcessException: Process exited abnormally with exit code -6:
[17:24:47]: ▸ Command line invocation:
[17:24:47]: ▸ /Applications/Xcode_15.4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -list
[17:24:47]: ▸ User defaults from command line:
[17:24:47]: ▸ IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES
[17:24:47]: ▸ 2025-03-10 17:24:46.855 xcodebuild[13337:34491] [MT] DVTAssertions: ASSERTION FAILURE in DevToolsCore/Xcode3Core/LegacyProjects/Frameworks/DevToolsCore/DevToolsCore/ProjectModel/DataModel/References/SynchronizedGroups/PBXFileSystemSynchronizedAbstractGroup.m:28
[17:24:47]: ▸ Details: Assertion failed: IDEFileSystemSynchronizedGroupsAreEnabled()
[17:24:47]: ▸ Object: <PBXFileSystemSynchronizedRootGroup>
[17:24:47]: ▸ Method: +allocWithZone:
[17:24:47]: ▸ Thread: <_NSMainThread: 0x60000026c200>{number = 1, name = main}
[17:24:47]: ▸ Hints:
[17:24:47]: ▸ Backtrace:
[17:24:47]: ▸ 0 -[DVTAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:fileName:lineNumber:assertionSignature:messageFormat:arguments:] (in DVTFoundation)
[17:24:47]: ▸ 1 _DVTAssertionHandler (in DVTFoundation)
[17:24:47]: ▸ 2 _DVTAssertionFailureHandler (in DVTFoundation)
[17:24:47]: ▸ 3 _DVTAssertionWarningHandler (in DVTFoundation)

My pipeline looks like this:

name: iOS Build and Deploy to App Store with Custom Version
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
version:
description: 'Version number'
required: true
default: '1.0.0'
env:
FLUTTER_CHANNEL: "stable"
RUBY_VERSION: "3.2.2"
jobs:
build_ios:
name: Build iOS
runs-on: macos-latest
timeout-minutes: 20
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Set up Ruby
uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
with:
ruby-version: ${{ env.RUBY_VERSION }}
bundler-cache: true
working-directory: 'daytistics/ios'
- name: Clean up vendor
working-directory: 'daytistics/ios'
run: rm -rf vendor
- name: Install Bundler Gems
working-directory: 'daytistics/ios'
run: bundle install
- name: Run Flutter tasks and get pub packages
uses: subosito/flutter-action@v2.16.0
with:
flutter-version-file: 'daytistics/pubspec.yaml'
channel: ${{ env.FLUTTER_CHANNEL }}
cache: true
- name: Get Flutter Packages
working-directory: ./daytistics
run: flutter pub get
- name: Install Bundler Gems
working-directory: 'daytistics/ios'
run: |
bundle install
bundle exec pod repo update # Add this line
# Remove the "Reinstall CocoaPods" step entirely
- name: Pod Install
working-directory: 'daytistics/ios'
run: bundle exec pod install
- name: Clean Flutter build
working-directory: ./daytistics
run: flutter clean
- name: Create .env file
working-directory: ./daytistics
run: touch .env
- uses: maierj/fastlane-action@v3.1.0
with:
lane: 'release_app_store'
subdirectory: daytistics/ios
options: '{
"version_number": "${{ github.event.inputs.version }}",
"env_vars": ["SUPABASE_URL", "SUPABASE_ANON_KEY", "POSTHOG_API_KEY", "SUPABASE_AUTH_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID", "SENTRY_DSN"]
}'
env:
ASC_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.ASC_KEY_ID }}
ASC_ISSUER_ID: ${{ secrets.ASC_ISSUER_ID }}
ASC_KEY_P8_BASE64: ${{ secrets.ASC_KEY_P8_BASE64 }}
MATCH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.MATCH_PASSWORD }}
MATCH_GIT_BASIC_AUTHORIZATION: ${{ secrets.MATCH_GIT_BASIC_AUTHORIZATION }}
APP_BUNDLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APP_BUNDLE_ID }}
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
SUPABASE_URL: ${{ secrets.SUPABASE_URL }}
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUPABASE_ANON_KEY }}
POSTHOG_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.POSTHOG_API_KEY }}
SUPABASE_AUTH_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.SUPABASE_AUTH_EXTERNAL_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID }}
SENTRY_DSN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_DSN }}

Everything works as expected in the simulator. However, I think that the problem isn't related to the pipeline. Instead I think it is related to the "Signing Capabilities" in X-Code:

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Thanks for your help!

Details: Assertion failed: IDEFileSystemSynchronizedGroupsAreEnabled()

Well, that's no good! That's an internal error to Xcode, and there's something unusual happening with your Xcode project file. If you open your project with Xcode 16.2, go to the File Inspector for the project, and select the Minimize Project References checkbox, and then close the Xcode project, what happens? Hopefully after that point, your command line build will no longer produce that error, but please let us know the results here.

— Ed Ford,  DTS Engineer

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