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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition
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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
19h 31m
English
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Delegation

When you set the delegate property of the CLLocationManager and implemented the two methods in WhereamiAppDelegate, you were using a design pattern called delegation. This is a very common pattern in Cocoa Touch, and many classes have a delegate property.

Delegation is an object-oriented approach to callbacks. A callback is a function that is supplied in advance of an event and is called every time the event occurs. Some objects need to make a callback for more than one event. For instance, the location manager wants to callback when it finds a new location and when it encounters an error.

However, there is no built-in way for two (or more) callback functions to coordinate and share information. This is the problem addressed by ...

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