Ionic - Add/Remove phonegap-push-plugin - CocoaPods was not found

Question

I'm writing an Ionic app but I'm getting so many issues. One issue in particular is that when I try to add the phonegap-push-plugin using the command

sudo ionic plugin add phonegap-plugin-push 

I get the below error:

Error: CocoaPods was not found. Please install version 1.0.1 or greater from https://cocoapods.org/ 

I've obviously tried installing this software as the error suggests, but I cannot find version 1.0.1 anywhere.

I'd also like to understand what this is required for and why Ionic thinks it needs it.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

To install push you must first install cocoapods. Follow these steps on your terminal in the Ionic project directory.

First remove what you tried to install

ionic cordova plugin remove phonegap-plugin-push 

Next install cocoapods

sudo gem install cocoapods 

Then you need to sync the cocoapods repo

pod setup 

This may take a while

Finally install push

ionic cordova plugin add phonegap-plugin-push --variable SENDER_ID="XXXXXXX"