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When I first learned iOS ten years ago I thought the documentation was outstanding. It had good API level documentation as well as a large number of guides that
by mmusson 7y ago
When I first learned iOS ten years ago I thought the documentation was outstanding. It had good API level documentation as well as a large number of guides that showed the right way to use the API to implement particular features.
I recently returned to the platform and my experience is very much like the parents. The documentation appears to be almost completely missing. The built-in documentation does not appear to include any guides at all. The API documentation is largely the kind where the description is a more verbose form of the method name, and sometimes when Objective-C is selected the documentation is showing the Swift version.
- mmusson 7y agoI have discovered that the previous documentation is still available in a “documentation archive” complete with banner warnings about how it is out of date and unsupported. It is almost impossible to find topics except by using google search. Newer functionality is missing and some of it is no longer accurate, but it is better than nothing.
- topherPedersen 7y agoI've had to resort to referencing the documentation archive before as well. While the new docs are certainly prettier, the old docs were much more substantive.