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CocoaPods vs Gradle: What are the differences?

Developers describe CocoaPods as "A dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects". CocoaPods 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. On the other hand, Gradle is detailed as "A powerful build system for the JVM". 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.

CocoaPods belongs to "Dependency Management" category of the tech stack, while Gradle can be primarily classified under "Java Build Tools".

CocoaPods and Gradle are both open source tools. It seems that CocoaPods with 11.7K GitHub stars and 2.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Gradle with 9.23K GitHub stars and 2.7K GitHub forks.

Netflix, Lyft, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Gradle, whereas CocoaPods is used by Record Bird, Poq, and LALALAB. Gradle has a broader approval, being mentioned in 465 company stacks & 360 developers stacks; compared to CocoaPods, which is listed in 32 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

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Easy to use
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Groovy dsl
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Slow build time
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Crazy memory leaks
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Fast incremental builds
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Kotlin DSL
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Windows Support

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Inactionnable documentation
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It is just the mess of Ant++
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Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal
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Bad Eclipse tooling
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Dependency on groovy

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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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to CocoaPods and Gradle?

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.

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

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