How to remove CocoaPods from a project?

Question

What\'s the right way of removing CocoaPods from a project? I want to remove the whole CocoaPod. Due to some limitations imposed by my client I can\'t use it. I need to have

Answer 1

I think there's a more easy way to do that.

As edited by the accepted answer, now you can use a third party plugin cocoapods-deintegrate, it's reliable because its made by a CocoaPods core team member.

But,there're still some files remain:

Podfile
Podfile.lock
Workspace

You could remove them from your project manually，but there's also another tool for helping you to clean them, thanks cocoapods-clean.

Finally, the uninstallation work is still not completed, cocoapods-clean don't clean the Podfile, just run:

rm Podfile

Cheers!

Before removing you should ensure you have a backup of your project!