diff --git a/src/objective-c/tests/Connectivity/Podfile b/src/objective-c/tests/Connectivity/Podfile
index f9224d9e4e9..547a38b1ca2 100644
--- a/src/objective-c/tests/Connectivity/Podfile
+++ b/src/objective-c/tests/Connectivity/Podfile
@@ -1,10 +1,31 @@
 install! 'cocoapods', :deterministic_uuids => false
+platform :ios, '8.0'
 
 # Location of gRPC's repo root relative to this file.
 GRPC_LOCAL_SRC = '../../../..'
 
 target 'ConnectivityTestingApp' do
   pod 'gRPC', :path => GRPC_LOCAL_SRC
+  pod 'gRPC-Core', :path => GRPC_LOCAL_SRC
+  pod 'gRPC-ProtoRPC', :path => GRPC_LOCAL_SRC
   pod 'Protobuf', :path => "#{GRPC_LOCAL_SRC}/third_party/protobuf"
   pod 'BoringSSL', :podspec => "#{GRPC_LOCAL_SRC}/src/objective-c"
 end
+
+pre_install do |installer|
+  # This is the gRPC-Core podspec object, as initialized by its podspec file.
+  grpc_core_spec = installer.pod_targets.find{|t| t.name == 'gRPC-Core'}.root_spec
+
+  # Copied from gRPC-Core.podspec, except for the adjusted src_root:
+  src_root = "$(PODS_ROOT)/../#{GRPC_LOCAL_SRC}"
+  grpc_core_spec.pod_target_xcconfig = {
+    'GRPC_SRC_ROOT' => src_root,
+    'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => '"$(inherited)" "$(GRPC_SRC_ROOT)/include"',
+    'USER_HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => '"$(GRPC_SRC_ROOT)"',
+    # If we don't set these two settings, `include/grpc/support/time.h` and
+    # `src/core/lib/support/string.h` shadow the system `<time.h>` and `<string.h>`, breaking the
+    # build.
+    'USE_HEADERMAP' => 'NO',
+    'ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS' => 'NO',
+  }
+end