Mastering CocoaPods
CocoaPods is one of the most popular dependency managers for iOS developers and has been maintained for many years as an open source project.
CocoaPods is often the first choice for many library developers and has a massive collection of frameworks that can be easily integrated with iOS projects.
Besides having a vast collection of frameworks, CocoaPods supports integration with local frameworks. It can help us modularize our project to different libraries and make it more flexible and organized.
Let’s see how CocoaPods works and how it is built.
Learning how CocoaPods is built
When we use CocoaPods to manage dependencies in our Xcode project, CocoaPods creates a new workspace, which includes both our project and any dependencies we specified in our Podfile
file. CocoaPods creates this workspace automatically when we run the pod
install
command.
Xcode Workspace
In Xcode, a workspace is a container for one or more Xcode projects and any...