CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects, used to manage external libraries for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS written in Swift and Objective-C. It uses a central repository of pod specifications (podspecs) that describe a library and its integration requirements, including version constraints and platform compatibility. Developers declare their dependencies in a Podfile, a DSL, and run the pod command to resolve and install them.
During installation, CocoaPods constructs an Xcode workspace that includes the original project and a Pods project
CocoaPods is implemented as a Ruby gem and is installed via RubyGems. It is maintained by a