Question

I am using a delegate to store data for my app. I have a tabviewcontroller with a navigationviewcontroller as the first view controller. When i set the delegate using

delegate = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; 

the delegate is null outside of the init method.
It however works fine when places in viewDidLoad. Any ideas why this could be?

UPDATE

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        delegate = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
    }
    return self;
}

Answer 1

The nib file was calling the initWithCoder method, not init.