Static iOS Framework VS Cocoa Touch Framework

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Cocoa Touch framework support was added in Xcode 6 primarily to support App Extensions in iOS 8 and Mac OS 10.10. App extensions have to be built as Cocoa Touch frameworks. Frameworks also require less manual work to set up in a project than static libraries, although CocoaPods largely takes care of these pain points. Frameworks can be - and are by by default - built without the source code in the build target. Usually only header file(s) are in the target. Therefore, you could create and share a binary only Framework.a