title: Is CocoaPods always required to build Cordova ios app?
body: <p>After running:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>cordova requirements</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I get the following result:</p>
  
  <p>Requirements check results for ios:
  Apple OS X: installed darwin
  Xcode: installed 8.2.1
  ios-deploy: installed 1.9.1
  CocoaPods: not installed 
  CocoaPods was not found. Please install version 1.0.1 or greater from <a href="https://cocoapods.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cocoapods.org/</a>
  Error: Some of requirements check failed</p>
  
  <p>But I would like to know if CocoaPods is really required for every Cordova application or only the applications that actually make use of CocoaPods?</p>