Question

I’m relatively new to ARC. I’m making an UIView subclass, that will have two labels (title and subtitle). I don’t want to publicly expose the labels as properties, only their text.

I’m currently using this:

@interface MyView : UIView
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *title;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *subtitle;
@end

 

@implementation MyView
{
    UILabel *_titleLabel;
    UILabel *_subtitleLabel;
}

- (void)setTitle:(NSString *)title
{
    [_titleLabel setText:title];
}

- (NSString *)title
{
    return [_titleLabel text];
}

- (void)setSubtitle:(NSString *)subtitle
{
    [_subtitleLabel setText:title];
}

- (NSString *)subtitle
{
    return [_subtitleLabel text];
}

@end

Are my two @properties correctly declared? Should I use the strong, weak or any other qualifier? And why?

Answer 1

If you are going to work with setter / getter, I think the appropiate tag would be the readwrite. strong weak retain etc apply when the property is the setter/getter for an instance variable.