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Is there a web site or project documenting private APIs for the iPhone SDK?

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here are searchable archives from iPhone OS 2.2.1 to iOS 9.2

https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers

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    This is probably the most up-to-date site, but it doesn't include C based frameworks, for example GraphicServices.Framework, etc. Obvious since the runtime only finds Objective-C things :) – nacho4d Jan 12 '12 at 22:31
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    It is having all up to date headers, but it doesnt have that much documentation as required, so, not able to use it perfectly, actually dont know how to use any of them – Mehul Thakkar Dec 10 '13 at 11:22
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Most likely. Just use the command line application class-dump to view the private headers. Note that your app will be rejected from the App Store for linking to private frameworks if you link at compile. It is easy enough to see that you are linking the private frameworks by running otool on your binary if linked at compile.

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These are the compilable headers generated by class-dump-z, a iOS class dumper:
http://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks

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  • Ya, that is having all headers, but question here is for getting documentation for that – Mehul Thakkar Dec 10 '13 at 11:24
  • Apple's SDK is not open source, and no one has bothered to reverse engineer and document more than a few classes. So headers are all there is. – Jano Jan 17 '14 at 17:36
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You might also find my "private-dumper" ruby gem useful: http://rubygems.org/gems/private-dumper

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