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CocoaPods A better way to use and publish open source
project for Objective-C
Francis Chong @siuying
Cocoa
A cocoa pod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean
cocoapods.org “CocoaPods is the dependency manager for Objective-C projects.”
Dependency Manager
dependency?
System Frameworks
Reusable Components
Third Party Code
Manage Dependency, the old way
“Drag the *.h and *.m file to Xcode”
None
Static Library
Frameworks
None
“dependency hell”
A -> C (version 1) B -> C (version 2)
A -> C (version 1) B -> C (version 2)
C -> D (version 3) E -> D (version 4) F -> B (version 5)
Better way to manage dependency?
rubygems pip npm
CocoaPods Basic
Installation
sudo gem install cocoapods
pod setup
Project Setup
cd MyApp! pod init
Podfile
None
“The Podfile is a specification that describes the dependencies of
the targets of one or more Xcode projects.” cocoapods.org
DSL for dependencies
None
None
None
None
None
Podspecs
“A Podspec, or Spec, describes a version of a Pod
library.” cocoapods.org
None
None
None
None
Repo
“The Specs Repo is git repository that contains the list
of available pods.” cocoapods.org
None
“Every library has an individual folder, which contains sub folders
of the available versions of that pod. ”
None
Install Dependencies
pod install
None
What happened when you run pod install ?
Update Podspecs Repo
Resolve Dependency
None
Semantic Versioning http://semver.org/
1.6.4 MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
MAJOR - incompatible API changes
MINOR - add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner
PATCH - backwards- compatible bug fixes.
1.6.4 MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
Download Dependencies
git hg svn bzr http
Generate Pods project
Generate workspace
None
Advance Topics
Making a CocoaPod
pod spec create MyLibrary
MyLibrary.podspec
None
pod lib create MyLibrary
!"" Assets! !"" Classes! #"" ios! #"" osx! !"" Resources!
!"" Example! #"" Podfile! !"" CHANGELOG.md! !"" LICENSE! !"" README.md! #"" MyLibrary.podspec!
MyLibrary.podspec
README.md CHANGELOG.md LICENSE
Example/Podfile
None
Release Pod
None
Publish your pod to public Repo
Fork the CocoaPods/ Specs repo
.! !"" Specs! #"" [SPEC_NAME]! #"" [VERSION]! #"" [SPEC_NAME].podspec
.! !"" MyLibrary! #"" 0.1.0! #"" MyLibrary.podspec! #"" 0.2.0! #""
MyLibrary.podspec
Send a Pull Request
Your Private Pods
Specify your own Podspec
None
None
Create Your Repo
.! !"" Specs! #"" [SPEC_NAME]! #"" [VERSION]! #"" [SPEC_NAME].podspec
pod repo add REPO_NAME SOURCE_URL!
CocoaPods Today
0.29.0
4227 Pods 12372 Versions
Most merged pull request #2 http://octoverse.github.com/
CocoaPods Bug Bash http://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Bug-Bash/
Learn from CocoaPods
Automation
Use existing infrastructure and tools
Build a MVP
Embrace opensource
Francis Chong @siuying
Readings • CocoaPods Guide • Semantic Versioning • iOS Static
Libraries Are, Like, Really Bad, And Stuff • kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework