MobileTable-stakesAround since 2011
CocoaPods / SPM / Gradle
Also written as CocoaPods, Swift Package Manager, Gradle
The tools that pull in third-party libraries and build mobile apps — CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager on iOS, Gradle on Android.
Think of it like
The ordering system and the assembly line: what arrives, and how it gets put together.
Junior or senior?
Table-stakes. Becomes a real signal only when someone has fixed slow builds or a dependency conflict, which is genuinely painful work.
Ask them
“Have you had to speed up a slow mobile build? What was actually taking the time?”