What is CocoaPods?
It supports almost every way you would want to get source code, git, svn, bzr, http and hg. You can use your own private code repository to manage your own dependencies. It only requires a git repo, no server necessary.
CocoaPods is a tool in the CocoaPods Packages category of a tech stack.
CocoaPods is an open source tool with 14.6K GitHub stars and 2.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CocoaPods's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CocoaPods?
Companies
137 companies reportedly use CocoaPods in their tech stacks, including Glovo, Zendesk, and Avito.
Developers
363 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CocoaPods.
CocoaPods Integrations
Git, Ruby, SVN (Subversion), macOS, and Mercurial are some of the popular tools that integrate with CocoaPods. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with CocoaPods.
CocoaPods's Features
- Incremental Installation
- Support Multiple Swift Versions & Pod Projects
- Define App Specs for Example Apps
- Dynamic Scheme Launch Arguments/Environments
- Automatic Generation of .xcfilelist
CocoaPods Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CocoaPods?
Gradle
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.
Cocoa Touch (iOS)
The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.
Carthage
It exclusively uses dynamic frameworks instead of static libraries. It's a ruthlessly simple dependency manager for macOS and iOS, created by a group of developers from Github.
Apache Maven
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
Homebrew
Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.
