Cocoa Touch
Cocoa Touch is Apple's primary application development framework for building native user interfaces and application logic on iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It provides a rich set of object-oriented APIs, deeply integrated with the underlying operating system and hardware, enabling developers…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Cocoa Touch was created to enable developers to build sophisticated, native, high-performance, and deeply integrated applications for Apple's revolutionary iPhone, which introduced a multi-touch interface and a 'desktop-class' operating system to mobile. It aimed to provide a comprehensive, consistent, and powerful framework for delivering a superior mobile user experience that was previously impossible or highly fragmented on competing mobile platforms.
- Platforms
- watchOS, iOS, tvOS, iPadOS
Related technologies
Notable users
- Uber
- Amazon
- Netflix
- Spotify
- Apple Inc.
- Microsoft
- virtually every company with an iOS application