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objective-c, Programming

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For the most part with ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), we don’t need to think about memory management at all with Objective-C objects. It ...

objective-c, Programming

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Can someone briefly explain to me how ARC works? I know it’s different from Garbage Collection, but I was just wondering exactly how ...

objective-c, Programming

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In my little iPad app I have a “switch language” function that uses an observer. Every view controller registers itself with my observer ...

Programming, swift

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I’d like to store an array of weak references in Swift. The array itself should not be a weak reference – its elements ...

objective-c, Programming

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How can I avoid this warning in xcode. Here is the code snippet:...

objective-c, Programming

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I have a working app and I’m working on converting it to ARC in Xcode 4.2. One of the pre-check warnings involves capturing ...

In the Mac and iOS platforms, memory leaks are often caused by unreleased pointers. Traditionally, it has always been of utmost importance to ...

I am a little confused about block usage in Objective-C. I currently use ARC and I have quite a lot of blocks in ...

Swift has: Strong References Weak References Unowned References How is an unowned reference different from a weak reference? When is it safe to ...

When converting a project to use ARC what does “switch case is in protected scope” mean? I am converting a project to use ...