Capacitor: 'npx cap add ios ' never finished ...

[ghost]

$ npx cap add ios [±master ●●]
✔ Installing iOS dependencies in 11.03s
✔ Adding native xcode project in: /Users/kevensa/Sites/ionic4/ios in 90.45ms
✔ add in 11.12s
✔ Copying web assets from www to ios/App/public in 297.44ms
✔ Copying native bridge in 1.15ms
✔ Copying capacitor.config.json in 1.26ms
✔ copy in 309.55ms
✔ Updating iOS plugins in 3.17ms
Found 0 Capacitor plugins for ios:
⠴ Updating iOS native dependencies
Any idea ?

[jcesarmobile]

Is it the first time you use CocoaPods?
The first time it can take 10-15 minutes easily, next times will be fast.

[ghost]

It took a lot longer than I thought. Thanks!

[stefan-girlich]

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. Just for reference, updating native iOS dependencies took 36 minutes on my MacBook Pro, 2,9 GHz Intel Core i5.

[blattmann]

I have the same issue here with $ npx cap update ios
I am currently waiting for > 15 minutes.
First time I am building the app for iOS and using CocoaPods.
It's a very tiny dummy app (PoC) though build with Vue.js, Ionic Web Components, and Capacitor.

--> Took me 17 minutes :)

[jcesarmobile]

Yeah, it's CocoaPods fault, if you have not used it before, the first time takes a long time as it downloads things (not just the ones needed by Capacitor to work, but a lot more).

[playerx]

Thanks for creating this issue and letting us know, I thought also that it was capacitor issue, it will be great if there will be progress indicator and also to highlight that cocoa pod takes too much time on the first launch