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Egor Bedunkevich
643 PointsHow do I use the documentation?
I use the advice to find answers using the documentation. However, I never seem to find the answer when I use it. Please help!
2 Answers
Jeff Rosenthal
1,879 PointsWithin xcode you can just option+click on pretty much any object, method or property to reveal a little summary box with a link to the documentation at the bottom under Reference. click it and your documentation will open to that reference. It can be a bit disorienting, but generally you've got a short intro, family tree, and then the properties and methods of that object. make sure to update your documentation in xcode, under prefs -> downloads -> documentation.
If you just google any object or method, ie googling NSString or stringByAppendingFormat, the first result will be the object's documentation, but it's nice to have an open reference within xcode
And check out Dash. It's a sort of resource hub and it integrates with xcode nicely.
It really doesn't matter how you get your documentation, just that you know how to use it and do so constantly
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsHow are you searching? Is it more of a google search or something like UIColor?