CocoaPods

cocoapods.org

The Dependency Manager for iOS & Mac projects

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/ About /

CocoaPods is an open-source dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects on iOS and macOS. It hosts over 107,000 libraries and is used in more than 3 million apps. Developers declare dependencies in a Podfile and CocoaPods handles installation and integration into Xcode projects.

/ How it works /

Developers list dependencies in a Podfile, then run `pod install` to automatically download and integrate libraries into their Xcode workspace.

/ Who it's for /

iOS and macOS developers using Swift or Objective-C

/ More info /

Background.

Status
launched
Business model
open-source
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