what is square brackets in code for ios apps (xamarin)

Question

I've tried to google this question, but didn't find what i'm looking for.

Im looking for some code examples for xamarin ios and very often meet constructions like this:

[cell setIndentationLevel:SOME_NUMBER];
[cell setIndentationWidth:SOME_OTHER_NUMBER];

And like this:

-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 
            indentationLevelForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return intOffset;  
}

How to use them? And can they be used in Xamarin studio for ios apps?

Please link to where you saw those examples for xamarin ios. — weston, Feb 28 '17 at 12:00
That looks like Objective C. Xamarin studio uses C#, but you can write native bindings in Objective C, but you would first need to learn it. This isn't a very good question as it's not a programming problem, and it's very open. Please see http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask — bj7, Feb 28 '17 at 12:02
to weston: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30060373/update-height-constraint-programatically — Vadim, Feb 28 '17 at 12:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '17 at 15:17

This is Objective-C and not C#. It is a different programming language. You'll need to "convert" it to C# to be able to use it in your app. (Assuming those are UITableViewCells), the C# equivalent would be:

cell.IndentationLevel = SOME_NUMBER;
cell.IndentationWidth = SOME_OTHER_NUMBER;

You need to do more research/learning into Objective-C, C#, and iOS if you're not able to tell the difference between those two languages and you want to do iOS development.

what is square brackets in code for ios apps (xamarin)

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