What are CocoaPods used for?

CocoaPods is an application level dependency manager for Objective-C, Swift and any other languages that run on the Objective-C runtime, such as RubyMotion, that provides a standard format for managing external libraries.

What is AFNetworking?

AFNetworking is an open source networking library for iOS and macOS that simplifies a developer’s tasks with a RESTful networking API and creates modular request/response patterns with success, progress, and failure completion blocks. It has a very active developer community and is used in some of the best apps.

How does cocoa pod work?

Cocoapods uses workspace to automate the build process and manage implicit dependencies. Cocoapods setup all necessary info into your consumer project(like Search pats, etc). When you build the consumer project Xcode pull pods and assemble all together.

How do you use AFNetworking?

  1. Define the URL for our resource.
  2. Create a AFNetworking session manager (NOTE: this is a simple version of a manager, check out the official documentation for other options).
  3. Create a json content dictionary to upload on body.
  4. Create and start asynchronous HTTP POST request, setting the JSON object as parameters.

What is NSURLConnection?

An NSURLConnection object lets you load the contents of a URL by providing a URL request object. The interface for NSURLConnection is sparse, providing only the controls to start and cancel asynchronous loads of a URL request. You perform most of your configuration on the URL request object itself.

How do I use Alamofire in SwiftUI?

Adding Alamofire Into Our Project Launch a new Xcode, SwiftUI based project and add the Alamofire dependency. You can use Cocoapods, Swift Package Manager or Carthage, whichever works the best for you. Once that’s done, simply import Alamofire into your Swift class.

How do you create a pod in flutter?

  1. Start VS Code.
  2. Invoke View>Command Palette…
  3. Type ‘flutter’, and select the ‘Flutter: New Project’ action.
  4. Enter a project name (e.g. myapp), and press Enter.
  5. Specify a location to place the project, and press the blue OK button.
  6. Wait for the project creation to continue, and the main.dart file to appear.

How do you use cocoa pods?

Open a terminal window, and $ cd into your project directory. Create a Podfile. This can be done by running $ pod init . Open your Podfile….

  1. Save your Podfile.
  2. Run $ pod install.
  3. Open the MyApp. xcworkspace that was created. This should be the file you use everyday to create your app.

What is a Podfile?

The Podfile is a specification that describes the dependencies of the targets of one or more Xcode projects. The file should simply be named Podfile .

How to create a pod in CocoaPods project?

< Using the files from a folder local to the machine. If you would like to develop a Pod in tandem with its client project you can use :path. Using this option CocoaPods will assume the given folder to be the root of the Pod and will link the files directly from there in the Pods project.

How does CocoaPods link files from one folder to another?

Using this option CocoaPods will assume the given folder to be the root of the Pod and will link the files directly from there in the Pods project. This means that your edits will persist between CocoaPods installations.

When to use bleeding edge version of CocoaPods?

Sometimes you may want to use the bleeding edge version of a Pod, a specific revision or your own fork. If this is the case, you can specify that with your pod declaration. It is important to note, though, that this means that the version will have to satisfy any other dependencies on the Pod by other Pods.

When to omit version number in CocoaPods?

When starting out with a project it is likely that you will want to use the latest version of a Pod. If this is the case, simply omit the version requirements. Later on in the project you may want to freeze to a specific version of a Pod, in which case you can specify that version number.