CocoaPods is an application level dependency manager for Objective-C, Swift and any other languages that run on the Objective-C runtime, such as RubyMotion,^[2] that provides a standard format for managing external libraries. It was developed by Eloy Durán and Fabio Pelosin, who continue to manage the project with the help and contributions of many others.^[3] They began development in August 2011^[4] and made the first public release^[5] on September 1, 2011. CocoaPods is strongly inspired by a combination of the Ruby projects RubyGems and Bundler.

CocoaPods focuses on source-based distribution of third party code and automatic integration into Xcode projects.

CocoaPods runs from the command line and is also integrated in JetBrains' AppCode integrated development environment.^[6] It installs dependencies (e.g. libraries) for an application by specification of dependencies rather than manual copying source files.^[7] Besides installing from many different sources, a “master” spec repository—containing metadata for many Open-Source libraries—is maintained as a git repository and hosted on GitHub.^[8] CocoaPods dependency resolution system is powered by Molinillo which is also used by other large projects such as Bundler, RubyGems and Berkshelf.

Example[edit]

The following Podfile example installs the AFNetworking and CocoaLumberjack libraries:

 platform :ios
 pod 'AFNetworking',    '~> 2.0.0'
 pod 'CocoaLumberjack', '< 1.7'

 target 'MyApp'

See also[edit]

• List of build automation software
• List of software package management systems

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Official source code repositories