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What's more, you can't get the current properties of the interface objects (e.g. the position on screen, or text content). You can only write to them: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta....

Wait, then how do you get user input at all? Just buttons? That sounds like a pain.

There seems to be some kind of dictation-based input

Does that matter? If you need to know those values, you can just store them locally when you set them.