The Cocoa Touch Frameworks that drive iOS apps share many proven patterns found on the Mac, but were built with a special focus on touch-based interfaces and optimization.
Cocoa Touch is Apple's application-development framework for ios, consisting of Foundation, UIKit (uikit), and Core Data (core-data).
The Cocoa Touch frameworks that drive ios apps share many proven patterns found on the mac, but were built with a special focus on touch-based interfaces and optimization.
For mac development, see cocoa.
For Cocoapods, see cocoapods.
Many Cocoa Touch questions deal with core-graphics, core-animation, objective-c, swift or opengl-es.
Debugging techniques
Cocoa programs can be debugged with many techniques and tools, both general and specific to objective-c, swift, xcode, and ios.