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Re: Documentation Viewer is Buggy (Game Kit)


  • Subject: Re: Documentation Viewer is Buggy (Game Kit)
  • From: Richard Charles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:22:10 -0600

You may find these Wayback Machine links helpful. They have old style
documentation with searchable pdfs available.

Mac Developer Library September 11, 2014

https://web.archive.org/web/20140911155409/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/

iOS Developer Library October 21, 2014

https://web.archive.org/web/20141021181308/https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/

Apple’s new style documentation is amazing. You can choose Swift or
Objective-C, it is fully functional on an iPhone or iPad and it is crafted and
presented like a work of art. The downside is the usability has fallen off a
cliff. Like you I actually hate the new style documentation.

For me the most productive documentation workflow is using an older style
docset in Safari (offline) along with a collection of searachable pdfs.

--Richard Charles

> On Jun 26, 2017, at 5:09 AM, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I really, really, really hate Apple’s wonderful new documentation style. Not
> only does it now take at least 3 times longer to actually use it and not only
> that, the document viewer doesn’t seem to function correctly or at least in
> any way that is useful.
>
> For instance, in XCode 8.3.3 I open the “Documentation and API Reference”
> window, this (thankfully opens in a new a Window, although you’d think they’d
> be consistent and shove it all into the one window they seem to want us to
> stick with!). I select Objective-C and scroll to the very bottom of the
> section it displays and them Command+Click “Game Center Programming Guide” so
> it opens in a New Tab. So far so good, it now show both tabs, however if I
> click back to the “Game Kit” tab to look something else up in the same
> manner, when you click back into “Game Center Programming Guide” tab, it
> immediately switches the tab back to “Game Kit” so now I have two tabs
> showing the same page!
>
> Is this really the best Apple can do? The new documentation style sucks, its
> overly complex and it was MUCH better when we just used PDFs for many reasons
> but the main one is that it didn’t depend on tools Apple produces (which are
> usually sub-standard) to use it.
>
> Is there anyway to just get PDFs for the Game Kit documentation?
>
> All the Best
> Dave
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