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While developing your apps, you’ll need easy access to detailed technical information. Xcode makes that material available at your fingertips while you're coding.

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Xcode Quick Help displays concise reference information without taking your focus away from the file you’re editing. Click a symbol, interface object, or build setting to see more information. Control-click areas of Xcode itself for task-based help about how to perform common operations. Each help article offers step-by-step instructions and usually includes a video or illustration for further clarification.

The documentation organizer in Xcode delivers in-depth programming guides, instructive tutorials, illustrative sample code, user guides for the developer tools, detailed framework API references, and video presentations by Apple engineers. The documentation organizer provides a searchable, browsable, integrated view of all of Apple's developer documentation. The iOS Developer Library is also available on the web.

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