Use cocoapods for demo project

[sibljon]

Essentially, this pull request makes it such that the AFNetworking, DACircularProgress, SVProgressHUD dependencies in the demo project are managed via Cocoapods.

[eduardocallado]

That’s a good idea and I’ve been thinking of doing it for a while. But actually I don't think very necessary to use Cocapods to manage external libraries on a demo project, and here are some reasons:

• A demo project is made so the library can be tested in a fast way after downloading it. Having to use the 'pod install’ command to make the project build is kinda boring.
• One of the main reasons to use Cocapods is to keep the external libraries up-to-date. Although is very good to be updated, on a demo project this is risky, because it may cause some incompatibilities. I know there is the possibility to set a specific tag in the Podfile, but this would be the simliar to use a static library, since it would have to be changed everytime there is an update.

[jpc1957]

The demo project seems to run fine on ios6.1. If i use CocaPods we are limited to ios7. Is there any reason for the limitation? Can I use IDMPhotoBrowser on ios6.1 also?

[wimaha]

I compiled my app using IDMPhotoBrowser with target to iOS 6.0! I think the cocoaPods file could be updated to minimum target iOS 6.0!

[sibljon]

A demo project is made so the library can be tested in a fast way after downloading it. Having to use the 'pod install’ command to make the project build is kinda boring.

I see your point, but I would argue that your Pods/ directory should be tracked in your git repo to begin with.

One of the main reasons to use Cocapods is to keep the external libraries up-to-date. Although is very good to be updated, on a demo project this is risky, because it may cause some incompatibilities. I know there is the possibility to set a specific tag in the Podfile, but this would be the simliar to use a static library, since it would have to be changed everytime there is an update.

If you track the Pods/ directory in your git repo, you wouldn't have this problem. If, later, you wanted to add a new pod to the demo project, pod install wouldn't update existing pods.

[eduardocallado]

After a while, I decided to use Cocoapods on the demo project.