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title: "What is difference between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch ?"  
description: "What is difference between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch ?"  
author: "Sunil Singh"  
published: 2017-01-05  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23135/what-is-difference-between-cocoa-and-cocoa-touch  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "iphone sdk"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is difference between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch ?

**Cocoa is Apple's** native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for their operating system OS X and Cocoa Touch is UI Framework or building software programs to run on iOS (for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), watchOS for the Apple Watch, and tvOS .

## Answers

### Answer by Sunil Singh

**Cocoa is Apple's** native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for their operating system OS X and Cocoa Touch is UI Framework or building software programs to run on iOS (for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), watchOS for the Apple Watch, and tvOS .


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