About CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that simplifies the process of integrating third-party libraries. It helps manage external dependencies and their versions, making it easy to update and maintain libraries.
Key Features
- Centralized dependency management
- Version resolution
- Workspace and project integration
- Subspecs support
- Dependency visualization
Code Example
# Podfile example
platform :ios, '14.0'
use_frameworks!
target 'MyApp' do
# Networking
pod 'Alamofire', '~> 5.4'
pod 'Kingfisher', '~> 6.0'
# UI Components
pod 'SnapKit', '~> 5.0'
pod 'lottie-ios', '~> 3.2'
# Analytics
pod 'Firebase/Analytics'
target 'MyAppTests' do
inherit! :search_paths
pod 'Quick', '~> 4.0'
pod 'Nimble', '~> 9.0'
end
end
# Install pods with: pod install