Chapter 12
Protocols and Delegates
Congratulations! You are acquiring the skills to become an iOS developer! However, iOS developers need to understand two additional topics in order to be successful: protocols and delegates. It is not uncommon for new developers to get overwhelmed by these topics, which is why we introduced the foundational topics of the Swift language first. After reading this chapter, you will see that protocols and delegates are really useful and not hard to understand and implement.
Multiple Inheritance
I discussed object inheritance in Chapter 2. In a nutshell, object inheritance means that a child can inherit all the characteristics of its parent, as shown in Figure 12-1.
Figure 12-1. Typical Swift inheritance
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