My iOS app uses Cocoapods to manage libraries such as AFNetworking, SDWebImage etc.
One of this library happens to have a bug that's been fixed in the bleeding edge version but it has not been propagated to the cocoapods version yet. I'd like to make a patch for this library and be able to share it with my team. What's the recommended way to deal with this?
On a side note: I'd imagine it might come a time where a similar situation could happen where I will want to fork a library. It would be nice if I then had a way to merge my changes into new versions as the library gets updated. Could a similar workflow be used in that case?
Forking the library, applying your patch, and pointing to your fork in the Podfile would be your best option.
If the library contains the podspec:
pod '<library', :git => 'https://github.com/yourname/<library>.git'
If the library does not contain the podspec, you have to copy the podspec to a local path and adjust it:
pod '<library>', :podspec => 'local/path/to/<library>.podspec'