Ok so after some struggle I got the solution to my problem. My pod repo was somewhat outdated and because of that I was unable to install the pod. The error in the terminal was reading something like ‘Unexpected token by boringSSL…’
I performed the following commands to remove my pod repository and reinstalled it, after which the pod installed correctly:
pod repo remove master
pod setup
pod install
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