Three20 Gets Documentation

Posted by Mark on Friday, December 18th, 2009

Yeah, finally – Joe Hewitt/Facebook’s venerable Three20 iPhone app library gets some official documentation, an effort spearheaded by one of its new maintainers, Jeff Verkoeyen…check it out at three20.info.  Arguably the best feature is the App Store “safeness” display, since Apple will occasionally tweak its private static analyzer which leads to autorejections for Three20 apps:

This and the javadoc-like autogenerated method documentation webpages are super-helpful, since the old documentation acquisition techniques consisted of searching the web for blog posts (most of them outdated like mine since Three20 has gone through some pretty big refactorings), reading the source, and single-stepping through everything with Xcode’s debugger.

It’s sad to see Joe Hewitt go, but I think having Three20 be more than a one-man show is a positive thing for stability and wide adoption.