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iOS Build a Photo Browser iPhone App Connecting to an API using OAuth Introducing API and OAuth 2.0

Posted by Chris Smith
Chris Smith
6,791 Points

I'm seriously stuck with CocoaPods. Please help!

Can someone please tell me where i'm going wrong? I've been stuck on CocoaPods for far too long. I completed the CocoaPods course and seem to have installed everything correctly.

I have followed these steps in line with this tutorial:

1) I created a podfile within the PhotoBombers Xcode project.

2) Within Xcode I clicked on the podfile, then entered: pod 'SimpleAuth/Instagram'

3) I then searched for the Terminal using Spotlight. Within the terminal I then entered 'pod' and pressed enter (as shown in the tutorial), however the following code appeared and looked nothing like the code in the tutorial:

Usage:

$ pod COMMAND

  CocoaPods, the Cocoa library package manager.

Commands:

+ cache      Manipulate the CocoaPods cache
+ init       Generate a Podfile for the current directory.
+ install    Install project dependencies to Podfile.lock versions
+ ipc        Inter-process communication
+ lib        Develop pods
+ list       List pods
+ outdated   Show outdated project dependencies
+ plugins    Show available CocoaPods plugins
+ repo       Manage spec-repositories
+ search     Search for pods.
+ setup      Setup the CocoaPods environment
+ spec       Manage pod specs
+ trunk      Interact with the CocoaPods API (e.g. publishing new specs)
+ try        Try a Pod!
+ update     Update outdated project dependencies and create new
             Podfile.lock

Options:

--silent     Show nothing
--version    Show the version of the tool
--verbose    Show more debugging information
--no-ansi    Show output without ANSI codes
--help       Show help banner of specified command

1 Answer

ianhan3
ianhan3
4,263 Points

Did you change to your projects root directory? The folder that contains the pod file?

For example:

cd /Users/yourName/Desktop/iOSApps/TipCalculator

then you can pod install

Chris Smith
Chris Smith
6,791 Points

Brill, thanks Ian. :)