Still a problem with latest CocoaPods on Mac OS X Catalina?

[Stephen Huey]

I'm setting up my environment on Mac OS X Catalina for the first time, and I found this:

https://dev.to/0xdonut/how-to-install-flutter-on-macos-using-homebrew-and-asdf-3loa

He mentioned a few months ago that an older version of CocoaPods was necessary for Flutter on Catalina due to a known issue with CocoaPods 1.8.4 not respecting the pod setup command on Catalina.  So I have 1.7.5 installed but I'm seeing this warning in Android Studio:

Warning: CocoaPods recommended version 1.8.0 or greater not installed.
Pods handling may fail on some projects involving plugins.

Does anyone know if it's safe to use the latest version of CocoaPods right now?

Here's my environment:

➜  ~ flutter doctor -v
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, v1.17.1, on Mac OS X 10.15.4 19E287, locale en-US)
    • Flutter version 1.17.1 at /Users/stephen/wardrobe/flutter
    • Framework revision f7a6a7906b (10 days ago), 2020-05-12 18:39:00 -0700
    • Engine revision 6bc433c6b6
    • Dart version 2.8.2

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 29.0.3)
    • Android SDK at /Users/stephen/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-29, build-tools 29.0.3
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-release-1586-b4-5784211)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[!] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 11.5)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 11.5, Build version 11E608c
    ! CocoaPods 1.7.5 out of date (1.8.0 is recommended).
        CocoaPods is used to retrieve the iOS and macOS platform side's plugin code that responds to your plugin usage on the Dart side.
        Without CocoaPods, plugins will not work on iOS or macOS.
        For more info, see https://flutter.dev/platform-plugins
      To upgrade:
        sudo gem install cocoapods

[✓] Android Studio (version 3.6)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Flutter plugin version 45.1.1
    • Dart plugin version 192.8052
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-release-1586-b4-5784211)

[✓] VS Code (version 1.45.1)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension version 3.10.2

 
[✓] Connected device (1 available)           
    • iPhone SE (2nd generation) • 45D76A5A-C10A-42B7-9753-51B3B0DF66B9 • ios • com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-13-5 (simulator)

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.
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