Cocoa API applications are typically developed using the development tools provided by Apple, specifically Xcode and Interface Builder, using the programming languages Objective-C or Swift.
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12 Facts About Cocoa API
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End users, Cocoa API applications are those written using the Cocoa API programming environment.
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Cocoa API continues the lineage of several software frameworks from the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep programming environments developed by NeXT in the 1980s and 1990s.
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For many years before this present use of the name, Apple's Cocoa API trademark had originated as the name of a multimedia project design application for children.
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The trademark, and thus the name "Cocoa API", was re-used to avoid the delay which would have occurred while registering a new trademark for this software framework.
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The original "Cocoa API" program was discontinued at Apple in one of the rationalizations that followed Steve Jobs's return to Apple.
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One feature of the Cocoa API environment is its facility for managing dynamically allocated memory.
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The Cocoa API frameworks are implemented as a type of bundle, containing the aforementioned items in standard locations.
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Since the Cocoa API framework manages all the clipping, scrolling, scaling and other chores of drawing graphics, the programmer is freed from implementing basic infrastructure and can concentrate on the unique aspects of an application's content.
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Cocoa API's design is a fairly, but not absolutely strict application of MVC principles.
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When extensions are needed, Cocoa API's use of Objective-C makes this a straightforward task.
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