From CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager
summary
CocoaPods remains dominant with over 3 million apps and a survey showing 74.8% CocoaPods dominance in business apps, but Swift Package Manager claims it is ready for prime time and is already a build system backed by llbuild. Migration is incremental: convert local pods to Package.swift, prefer libraries that are already SPM packages, migrate dependent groups together. Known blockers include mixed-language targets not supported, custom build configurations, static/dynamic linking inflexibility and authenticated binary URLs; workarounds include xcframeworks, precompiled binaries and run‑scripts for codesigning.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:10C dependency management
- 8:00Export integration
- 11:30Scenarios
- 13:30Incremental migration
- 15:19Limitations
- 22:34Binary differentiators
- 25:09The future
- 26:54Wrap up
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