title: iPhone Project Dependency Management
body: <p>Has anyone had any success in finding a reliable, generalised solution for managing dependencies for iPhone projects? I'm looking to split my iPhone applications up into reusable components and then pull them into projects that require them. I guess I'm looking for a Maven-esque workflow but for Xcode/iPhone projects. I've tried a number of things so far such as:</p>
  
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  <li><p>I've created a <strong>Maven plugin</strong> for iPhone applications which automates the building and signing of the applications but I constantly feel like I'm fighting against Maven to get this to work and it is altogether pretty messy. I'd rather not use this unless there are no other options.</p></li>
  <li><p>I have also tried using <strong>static libraries</strong> to package the code up to re use but the problem with this is that I'd also like to include reusable XIBs and images in my projects and these cannot be included in the static library for redistribution. They are great for code but I'd like to have one system that does everything rather than different dependency management systems for different types of dependency.</p></li>
  <li><p>At the moment I've settled on using the version control system to do my dependencies for me. In this case I'm using <strong>SVN externals</strong> to load the dependencies into the workspace when I checkout the project.</p></li>
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  <p>Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm now using <a href="https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods" rel="nofollow">CocoaPods</a> to perform this task.</p>