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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Concurrency Writing Concurrent Networking Code

Posted by Aaron Williamson
Aaron Williamson
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Different documentation through xcode vs online

So Pasan is using the documentation through the xcode IDE help menu, but I'm trying to look up the same documentation online and it doesn't give as much information it seems. Here's the URL I went to for NSURLSessionDownloadTask for Swift:

https://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSURLSessionDownloadTask_class/index.html#//apple_ref/swift/cl/NSURLSessionDownloadTask

As you can see, the only information it shows is one function for cancelling a download. I don't see the entire list of function declarations like when Pasan looks up the information through xcode.

Since sometimes I watch these videos on a computer that doesn't have xcode installed I want to know; is this more explicit documentation only available through xcode or is there a way to look up these same functions and declarations through Apple's documentation on the web?