….or should I learn to manage memory myself?
Is it OK to rely on the garbage collection feature of iOS 5?
I’m new and I’m thinking about learning iOS soon.
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….or should I learn to manage memory myself?
Is it OK to rely on the garbage collection feature of iOS 5?
I’m new and I’m thinking about learning iOS soon.
iOS doesn’t have garbage collection; the iOS5 SDK introduced ARC (automatic reference counting), which is subtly different from real garbage collection. You’ll still need to know and understand the semantics of reference counting, as avoiding memory leaks by not using strong reference cycles etc. is still your responsibility, even with ARC. But by all means, go ahead and use ARC, it does make most code simpler.