Does Xcode build CocoaPods every time I build my project?

cocoapods, dependency-management, xcode

Solution

Pods will be recompiled:

- When you do a `pod install/update`

- When you do to a clean build

Most of the time, pods are not recompiled.

You can speedup clean build pods using:

https://github.com/leavez/cocoapods-binary

Problem

So I have a project with lots of code, and some of it part of open source projects hosted on GitHub, I'm thinking of removing that code and use CocoaPods to import and manage that code for me. My question is, will that help with the project building time? does Xcode build the complete workspace every time I build my project? When specifically does Xcode build the pods?

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