Download Xcode 4.2 Documentation for Offline Install

Download Xcode 4.2 documentation for offline install

Here you are the steps:

Download the documentation from Xcode from any machine.

Go the download installation (See Figure Below)

Copy the "documentation set" files (it is actually packages with a lot of file so it is recommend to zip them).

Move them to the same location where you installed Xcode on the other machines

Restart Xcode.

Done.

How to download documentation file online -
If you are connected to Internet you can download the documentation file. Go to Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads (this is the screen I attached). Here you will find iOS 4.3 Library in listing and and button on right "Install". Just Click the button "Install" for the items you want to download.

After documentation download you can see its path and copy the files to other systems.
Hope it clears your question completely.. if not please post in comments.

Edited

As I am still getting upvotes on this answer I thought its better to post some links to download new SDK's documentations.

iOS SDK 5.1 - https://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiPhone5_1.atom

iOS SDK 6.0 - https://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiPhone6.0.atom

Mac OS X 10.6 core library - https://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleSnowLeopard.atom

Mac OSX 10.8 - https://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleOSX10_8.atom

Xcode 4.0+ developer library - https://developer.apple.com/rss/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleXcode4_0.atom

how to install documentation of iOS 5 sdk in xcode 4.2 without internet?

You can download the documentation file on other system (which have internet connection) from this link

http://devimages.apple.com/docsets/20111012/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiOS5_0.iOSLibrary.xar

then uncompress this .xar file at - /Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/

Update: here is the links for other documentation files for offline install -

Apple iOS Documentation V 5.0

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.2 (XCode 4)

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.2 (XCode < 4?)

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.3

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.3

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.1

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.1 (XCode 4)

Apple iOS Documentation V 4.0

Mac OS Lion Core Reference

Download iOS SDK 7.0 documentation for offline install

I fired up Wireshark to inspect where Xcode itself downloads the documentation when doing it the normal/online way via the Downloads-tab in Xcode's Preferences:

So here are the various download links:

• iOS 7 doc set
• iOS 8 library doc
• OS X 10.9 doc set
• Xcode 6 library doc

Just open the image and execute the installer:

Download Xcode documentation sets manually

Found what I was looking for:

http://learning2code.blogspot.com/2008/05/download-xcode-docsets-to-your-hard.html

XCode 4.2: Organizer documentation is locked in a OSX Lion way

The situation was fixed for me by Apple / XCode itself, as it automatically downloaded the (newly available?) "iOS 5.0 Library" documentation files. Documentation now runs from a complete local copy.

To be sure you get this too you need to have the automatic download of documentation files turned on.

Preferences > Downloads > Documentation > Check for and install updates automatically

(You can also download the files manually by clicking on "Check and install now")

XCode 4.3 - Uninstall XCode 4.2

Hi I found a solution to gain the option again:

1. Close Xcode
2. Go to ~/Library/Preferences
3. Open com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
4. Search IDEHaveOfferedXcodesToRemove and set the Boolean value to false
5. Save & close
6. Now open the Xcode 4.3 again and the option will become active again

Xcode 4.2 documentation, clarification needed

Everything is fine, there's nothing missing. Quick Help is not provided for compiler directives and built-in keywords and data types.

You'll notice that quick help is unavailable for keywords like @interface, @property, nonatomic, readonly and so on. Likewise, built-in data types like int, float, double don't have quick help either. This is normal.

If you need help on the ARC keywords like strong, weak, __unsafe_unretained I suggest to read the Transitioning to ARC Release Notes.

For compiler directives please refer to my Complete List of Objective-C 2.0 @ Compiler Directives.

Is there a way to get old revisions of Apple Sample Code?

Sadly, no. Unless you have an older system restore disc (they came with older versions of Xcode and I think the documentation came with them) or one of the older ADC DVD mailings that went away in favor of online downloads.

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