CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. CocoaPods is typically used to manage and integrate dependencies in Xcode projects. Defold does not use Xcode when building for iOS and macOS, but it still uses Cocoapods to resolve dependencies on the build server.

Resolving dependencies

Native extensions can include a Podfile file in the manifests/ios and manifests/osx folders to specify the extension dependencies. Example:

platform :ios '11.0'

pod 'FirebaseCore', '10.22.0'
pod 'FirebaseInstallations', '10.22.0'

The build server will collect the Podfile files from all the extensions and use these to resolve all dependencies and include them when building the native code.

Examples:

• Firebase
• Facebook