The CocoaPods Sunset: What Dec 2, 2026 Means for Your React Native App

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