What is Cocoa?

What is Cocoa?

Cocoa is a programming API for Mac OS X.

The related API Cocoa Touch includes gesture recognition, animation, and a different user interface library, and is for applications for the iOS operating system, used on Apple devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the iPad.

Cocoa applications are typically developed using the development tools provided by Apple, specifically Xcode (formerly Project Builder) and Interface Builder, using the Objective-C language.