Introduction to CocoaPods Before Swift Package Manager (SPM) became the native standard, the iOS world belonged to CocoaPods. What is CocoaPods? CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. In simple terms, it’s a tool that automates the process of adding, updating, and managing third-party libraries (like Firebase, Alamofire, or Lottie) in your Xcode projects. Instead of manually dragging source files into your project and worrying about build settings, you define what you need in a single text file called a Podfile. Who Created and Manages It? Founders: It was started by Eloy Durán and Fabio Pelosin. Management: The project is maintained by a core team of volunteers, including developers like Samuel Giddins, Danielle Lancashire, and others, with contributions from the broader open-source community. Governance: While it is an open-source project hosted on GitHub , it operates through a centralized registry called the CocoaPods Trunk. When Did It Start?…