Helpers

There are many, many supplemental tools for Cocoa developers—check the “Developer Tools” category in the Mac App Store for scores of choices. Here are a few of the most useful:

Image AppKiDo and AppKiDo-for-iPhone. Documentation for Cocoa is getting better all the time, but the format of the documents for the core API hasn’t changed in ten years. Navigation up and down the inheritance tree isn’t practical—not all of the links are there. Finding a method or class by a part of its name isn’t practical—a search in the Documentation browser will also turn up hundreds of matches in the overview documents. Even finding out what methods a class implements ...

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