Chapter 12
Protocols and Delegates
Congratulations! You are acquiring the skills to become an iOS developer! However, there are two additional topics that iOS developers need to understand to be successful: protocols and delegates. It is not uncommon for new developers to get overwhelmed by these topics, so we thought it best to introduce the foundation topics of the Objective-C language first.
Multiple Inheritance
We discussed object inheritance in Chapter 1. In a nutshell, object inheritance means that a child can inherit all the characteristics of its parent. See Figure 12–1.
Figure 12–1. Typical Objective-C inheritance
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