Tutorial by Examples

With automatic reference counting (ARC), the compiler inserts retain, release, and autorelease statements where they are needed, so you don't have to write them yourself. It also writes dealloc methods for you. The sample program from Manual Memory Management looks like this with ARC: @interface M...

Modern A weak reference looks like one of these: @property (weak) NSString *property; NSString *__weak variable; If you have a weak reference to an object, then under the hood: You're not retaining it. When it gets deallocated, every reference to it will automatically be set to nil Obje...

This is an example of a program written with manual memory management. You really shouldn't write your code like this, unless for some reason you can't use ARC (like if you need to support 32-bit). The example avoids @property notation to illustrate how you used to have to write getters and setters....

These rules apply only if you use manual reference counting! You own any object you create By calling a method whose name begins with alloc, new, copy or mutableCopy. For example: NSObject *object1 = [[NSObject alloc] init]; NSObject *object2 = [NSObject new]; NSObject *object3 = [object2 ...