Intro to iOS Development
  • Welcome
    • ☀️Introduction
    • 🐣Getting Started
    • 🐦Course Staff
  • Logistics
    • 📜Syllabus
    • 🗓️Schedule
    • 🖊️Grading
    • 🙋‍♂️Office Hours
    • Ed Discussion
  • Assignments
    • 🍼A1: Swift Basics
    • 🧑A2: Profile
    • 💬A3: ChatDev
    • 👨‍🍳A4: ChefOS
    • 👨‍🍳A4: ChefOS - SwiftUI
    • 📱Hack Challenge
      • 🏆FA23 Winners
  • Lectures
    • 1️⃣Logistics + Swift Basics
    • 2️⃣UIKit + AutoLayout
  • 3️⃣MVC + Navigation + Delegation
  • 4️⃣UITableView
  • 5️⃣UICollectionView
  • 6️⃣Networking I
  • 7️⃣Networking II
  • 8️⃣SwiftUI I
  • 9️⃣SwiftUI II
  • 🔟Persistence + SnapKit
  • 🔔(11) Notifications
  • 🌎(12) Deployment and MapKit
  • Chapters
    • 🖐️Introduction
    • ☁️Git + GitHub
      • 1️⃣Git Installation
      • 2️⃣Git Basics
      • ➕Git+
    • 🐣Swift Basics
      • 1️⃣Variables and Constants
      • 2️⃣Data Types
      • 3️⃣Operators
      • 4️⃣Data Structures
      • 5️⃣Conditionals
      • 6️⃣Loops
      • 7️⃣Functions
      • 8️⃣Closures
      • 9️⃣Optionals
    • 🧰UIKit + AutoLayout
      • 1️⃣Classes
      • 2️⃣UIKit
      • 3️⃣AutoLayout
    • 📺MVC + Navigation + Delegation
      • 1️⃣MVC
      • 2️⃣Navigation
      • 3️⃣Delegation
    • 🏓UITableView
      • 1️⃣What is a UITableView?
      • 2️⃣UITableView Setup
    • 📚UICollectionView
      • 1️⃣What is a UICollectionView?
      • 2️⃣UICollectionView Setup
    • 🌐Networking I
      • 1️⃣HTTP Requests
      • 2️⃣Callbacks
      • 3️⃣Codable
    • 🌍Networking II
      • 1️⃣Alamofire
      • 2️⃣GET Requests
      • 3️⃣POST Requests
      • 4️⃣URLSession
    • 💾Persistence + SnapKit
      • 1️⃣Persistence
      • 2️⃣SnapKit
    • 🕊️SwiftUI
      • 1️⃣Introduction to SwiftUI
      • 2️⃣Getting Started with SwiftUI
      • 3️⃣Views + Modifiers
      • 4️⃣Layouts
      • 5️⃣Navigation
      • 6️⃣Property Wrappers
    • 🎛️Widgets
      • 1️⃣Introduction to Widgets
      • 2️⃣Setting Up Widgets
      • 3️⃣Building Widgets
      • 4️⃣Configuring Widgets
    • 🧱Project Foundation
    • ✅Testing
      • 1️⃣Unit Testing
    • 👣Debugging
      • 1️⃣OSLog
      • 2️⃣Crashlytics
      • 3️⃣Analytics
    • ☁️CI/CD
      • 1️⃣Xcode Cloud
      • 2️⃣AppStore Shipping
  • Guides
    • 🔨Xcode Project Setup
    • 🎨Figma
    • 📬Postman
    • 🥥CocoaPods
    • 🧰UIKit Handbook
    • 📑Tab Views
      • UITabBarController
      • TabView
  • Work in progress
    • 🧵Concurrency
    • 2️⃣UI Testing
    • 🕐Reactive Programming
    • 🧠Memory Management
      • 🔁ARC
    • 📦Storage
    • 📣Notifications
  • Archived
    • SP24
      • Logistics
        • 📜Syllabus
        • 🗓️Schedule
        • 🖊️Grading
        • 🙋‍♂️Office Hours
      • Assignments
        • 🍼A1: Swift Basics
        • 🧑A2: Profile
        • 💬A3: ChatDev
        • 👨‍🍳A4: ChefOS
        • 📱Hack Challenge
          • 🏆FA23 Winners
      • Lecture
        • 0️⃣Course Intro + Logistics + Git Setup
        • 1️⃣Swift Basics
        • 2️⃣UIKit + AutoLayout
        • 3️⃣MVC + Navigation + Delegation
        • 4️⃣UITableView
        • 5️⃣UICollectionView
        • 6️⃣Networking I
        • 7️⃣Networking II
        • 8️⃣Persistence + SnapKit
        • 🔟SwiftUI
        • 🔢TabViews
    • FA23
      • Logistics
        • 🐣Getting Started
        • 🐦Course Staff
        • 📜Syllabus
        • 🗓️Schedule
        • 🖊️Grading
        • 🙋‍♂️Office Hours
      • Assignments
        • 🍼A1: Swift Basics
        • 🧑A2: Profile
        • 💬A3: ChatDev
        • 👨‍🍳A4: ChefOS
        • 📱Hack Challenge
          • 🏆FA23 Winners
      • Lectures
        • 0️⃣Course Intro + Logistics
        • 1️⃣Swift Basics
        • 2️⃣UIKit + AutoLayout
        • 3️⃣MVC + Navigation + Delegation
        • 4️⃣UITableView
        • 5️⃣UICollectionView
        • 6️⃣Networking I
        • 7️⃣Networking II
        • 8️⃣Persistence + SnapKit
        • 🎛️Widgets
          • 👼Introduction to Widgets
          • ⚒️Setting Up Widgets
          • 🧱Building Widgets
          • 👨‍💻Configuring Widgets
        • 🔟SwiftUI
    • SP23
      • Logistics
        • Lecture Schedule
        • Syllabus
        • Grading
        • SP23 Office Hours
      • Chapters
        • 1. Intro to Swift & Xcode
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • 🍼Project: Swift Basics
        • 2. UIKit and AutoLayout
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • 🛒Project: UIKit + AutoLayout
        • 3. Navigation, MVC, and Delegation
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • Project: Navigation + Delegation
        • 4. UITableView
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • Project: UITableView
        • 5. UICollectionView
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • Project: UICollectionView
        • 6. Networking I
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
          • Project: Persistence
        • 7. Networking II
          • Lecture Handout
          • Lecture Demo
            • Message Board
          • Project: Networking II
        • 8. Swift UI
        • 9. CocoaPods
          • 🍫Lecture Handout
          • 🧑‍🍳Lecture Demo
      • Cheat Sheets
        • Setting Up a New Xcode Project
        • Submitting Your Projects
        • Setting Up CocoaPods
    • 2022
      • SwiftUI
    • 2021
      • Adding Flare
      • Project: UIView Animations (Optional - Extra Credit)
      • UIView Animations
      • Xcode Tips and Tricks
    • 2019
      • Firebase
      • Persistence: UserDefaults
  • Swift Guide (ARCHIVED)
    • About this Textbook
    • Documentation
    • Constants and Variables
      • Variable Properties
      • Lazy and Static Variables
    • Functions
    • Ranges
    • Arrays
      • Basic Array Operations
      • Iteration and Enumeration
      • Advanced Array Operations
    • Tuples
    • Conditions and While Loops
    • For Loops
    • Enums and Switches
      • Enums with Associated Values
      • Indirect Enums
    • Classes and Structs
    • Optionals
    • Dictionaries
      • Dictionary Implementation
    • Closures
    • Constraints
    • Generics
    • Protocols
      • Protocols With Associated Types
    • Casting
    • Errors
    • Networking
      • Result
    • Inout
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CocoaPods

Fall 2023 | Vin Bui

What is CocoaPods?

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects in Xcode. It is used in over 3 million apps and contains over 95 thousand libraries. It is similar to pip for Python and npm for NodeJS. In other words, you can use code written by other people in your own Xcode project to make your life easier!

CocoaPods Setup

  1. To install CocoaPods, simply run the following in the command line: sudo gem install cocoapods

  2. Navigate to your Xcode project directory and run this command: pod init. This creates a Podfile in your directory.

  3. Open the Podfile and list out the pods you want to install. For example, if I wanted to install the latest version of SnapKit and Alamofire, my Podfile would look something like this:

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'MyApp' do
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for MyApp

  pod 'SnapKit'
  pod 'Alamofire'
end

Change ‘MyApp’ to the name of your project.

  1. Once you are done, save your Podfile and install the dependencies by running pod install

    • If this command does not work, try pod install --repo-update

You must open the Xcode workspace instead of the project when using CocoaPods!

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