diff --git a/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/Podfile b/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/Podfile
index 4da8bc44f66a77f358c549b51064ec9e76c63698..31bd4eb821670ce2814cd02da7188c8ef59e2ead 100644
--- a/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/Podfile
+++ b/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/Podfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
 platform :ios, '8.0'
 
 pod 'gRPC', :path => "../../../.."
-pod 'ProtocolBuffers', '~> 1.9'
+pod 'Route_guide', :path => "protos"
 
 link_with 'Sample', 'SampleTests'
 
diff --git a/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/protos/Route_guide.podspec b/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/protos/Route_guide.podspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c7abf20d39925025be7e7739f3c05f76a4bc52b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/protos/Route_guide.podspec
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Pod::Spec.new do |s|
+  s.name     = 'Route_guide'
+  s.version  = '0.0.1'
+  s.summary  = 'Protobuf library generated from route_guide.proto'
+  s.homepage = 'https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/protos'
+  s.license  = 'New BSD'
+  s.authors  = { 'Jorge Canizales' => 'jcanizales@google.com' }
+
+  s.source_files = './*.{h,m}'
+
+  s.platform = :ios
+  s.ios.deployment_target = '6.0'
+  s.requires_arc = true
+
+  s.dependency 'ProtocolBuffers', '~> 1.9'
+end