Managing Objective-C and Xcode dependencies with Cocoapods.

Cocoapods is a dependency management system for Objective-C and Xcode Projects. In this slide we will go over setting up Cocoapods in an iOS Project.

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1. Create New Xcode Project and select Single View Application and Click ‘Next’.
2. Fill Product Name, Organisation Name, Company Identifier, Class Prefix and Devices as above and click Next.
3. Leave Source Control not selected and click ‘Create’.
4. Right click on the Project Folder and select ‘New File’.
5. Under iOS select ‘Other’ and click ‘Empty’ and then Next.
6. Save the file as Podfile with no extension in the Project Folder. Leave Targets unchecked and click ‘Create’.
7. Visit cocoapods.org and search for an Open-source Off Canvas Menu on the search bar. We will use AMSlideMenu 1.5.3.
8. Select Podfile and enter pod “AMSlideMenu”, “~>1.5.3”.
9. Open the Terminal app and Navigate to your Project folder by typing cp and dragging your project folder into Terminal app then press ‘Enter’.
10. Cocoapods will now download all the dependencies in your Podfile and add them in your project in a new workspace.
11. Close your Project in Xcode first then navigate to your Project folder in Finder. Re-open the new Workspace Cocoapods has created for you.
12. Your Project will now have your Project Directory and a second Pods Directory with all your dependencies.