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Categories and Protocols

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A category can be used in Objective-C to add methods to classes, even when you don’t have complete access to the original source file for the class.

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Oliveira, C. (2013). Categories and Protocols. In: Objective-C Programmer’s Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5906-0_4

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