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CocoaPods manages dependencies for your Xcode projects.

You specify the dependencies for your project in a simple text file: yourPodfile.CocoaPods recursively resolves dependencies between libraries, fetchessource code for all dependencies, and creates and maintains an Xcodeworkspace to build your project. The latest released Xcode versions and theprior version are supported.

Installing and updating CocoaPods is very easy. Don't miss theInstallationguide and theGetting Started guide.

CocoaPods aims to improve the engagement with, and discoverabilityof, third party open-source Cocoa libraries. Theseproject goals influence and drive the design of CocoaPods:

• Create and share libraries, and use them in your own projects,without creating extra work for library authors. Integratenon-CocoaPods libraries and hack on your own fork of anyCocoaPods library with a simple transparentPodspec standard.
• Allow library authors to structure their libraries however they like.
• Save time for library authors by automating a lot of Xcode work notrelated to their libraries' functionality.
• Support any source management system. (Currently supported aregit,svn,mercurial,bazaar, and various types of archives downloaded over HTTP.)
• Promote a culture of distributed collaboration on pods, but also providefeatures only possible with a centralised solution to foster a community.
• Build tools on top of the core Cocoa development system, including thosetypically deployed to other operating systems, such as web-services.
• Provide opinionated and automated integration, but make it completelyoptional. You may manually integrate your CocoaPods dependenciesinto your Xcode project as you see fit, with or without a workspace.
• Solve everyday problems for Cocoa and Xcode developers.

Lovingly sponsored by a collection of companies, see the footer ofCocoaPods.org for an up-to-date list.

All CocoaPods development happens on GitHub. Contributions make for good karma andwewelcome new contributors with joy. We take contributors seriously, and thus have acontributorcode of conduct.

CocoaPods is composed of the following projects:

Status	Project	Description	Info
	CocoaPods	The CocoaPods command line tool.	guides
	CocoaPods Core	Support for working with specifications and podfiles.	docs
	CocoaPods Downloader	Downloaders for various source types.	docs
	Xcodeproj	Create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby.	docs
	CLAide	A small command-line interface framework.	docs
	Molinillo	A powerful generic dependency resolver.	docs
	Master Repo	Master repository of specifications.	guides