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

If you just want to remove one pod and keep others you may have installed, open the podfile in your app directory and delete the one you want to remove. Then navigate to your app directory using terminal and type:

pod update

This will remove the pod you removed from the podfile. You will see it has been removed in the terminal:

Analyzing dependencies
Removing FirebaseUI
Removing UICircularProgressRing

Note that this method will also pull any updates to the other pods in your podfile. You may or may not want that.