iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Protocols

For every object that can have a delegate, there is a corresponding protocol that declares the messages that the object can send its delegate. The delegate implements methods from the protocol for events it is interested in. When a class implements methods from a protocol, it is said to conform to the protocol.

(If you are coming from Java or C#, you would use the word “interface” instead of “protocol”.)

The protocol for UITextField’s delegate looks like this:

@protocol UITextFieldDelegate <NSObject> @optional - (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField; - (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField; - (BOOL)textFieldShouldEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField; - (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField ...