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user3740953
user3740953

Reputation: 97

Where is the Swift CocoaTouch documentation?

I imagine the Swift language has gotten the attention of a boatload of iOS programmers - many of whom never wrote a single line of Objective-C in their life.

For example I have dozens of apps on the app store, written in Titanium.

In the Titanium world every property and event available is documented, for example like this for UILabel:

http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/3.0/#!/api/Titanium.UI.Label

Is there an Apple equivalent? I read the Apple iBook on Swift - it discusses the core language, it doesn't list out the methods available in the Cocoa touch framework, and leaves it to the programmer to intuitively guess based on their Objective-C experience.

Is that a fair assessment, that that you have to learn Objective-C first and then use that as a bridge language to Swift - or is Swift intended to be stand-alone? If so, where is the documentation of Cocoa Touch, in swift?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 718

Answers (2)

Firo
Firo

Reputation: 15566

The documentation is included in Xcode6 (or can be downloaded). You can currently access it by going to Window -> Documentation and API Reference. (or by pressing shift, command & 0)

You will then have full access to search and find resources here. You can also option click on something in Xcode to pull up the docs for that specific thing.

As you will see it shows you the declarations for Obj-C and Swift together. This technically isn't Swift documentation (it is the iOS8 library documentation) but it should be similar to what you were looking for.

Note: this post originally included screen shots but I removed them as developers are not supposed to post screen shots of pre-released software.

Upvotes: 3

jtbandes
jtbandes

Reputation: 118741

The Cocoa Touch APIs and frameworks are the same between Swift and Objective-C. There are only minor syntax differences used when you call the APIs. The framework documentation is currently pre-release, so if you aren't a registered developer then you can't see it yet.

Upvotes: 0

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