iOS
For iOS (and many other languages and IDEs), you could use Gradle as well. This is particularly interesting and valuable if you work on both the Android and iOS platforms and if you wish to use the same tools for building your apps using build servers such as TeamCity or Jenkins. More on this in Chapter 18, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment, about Continuous Delivery.
Another well-known solution, but available to iOS development only, is CocoaPods. It is a dependency manager for iOS projects (Objective C or Swift). It manages third-party libraries by creating a workspace that, besides your own projects will contain a CocoaPods project, where our dependencies will reside.
The pod file contains the list of dependencies and ...
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