What is different about NIB loading in a Cocoa Touch application

Top level NIB objects are auto-released. (In Mac OS X, top levels objects are retained by default, and hence must be released explicitly on that platform.)

Outlets are set using the setValue:forKey: method. This method retains outlets automatically, so if you use it, you must release those outlets in the object’s dealloc method.

The awakeFromNib message is sent to each object that was created as a side effect of loading the nib. This means that on the iPhone OS File’s Owner and other proxy objects do not receive this message. Please refer to the CocoaTouch or Cocoa documentation for a complete list of methods available for configuring your UI objects after NIB loading has occurred.

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Tags: awakeFromNib, Nib, Cocoa Touch, iPhone, Files owner, proxy object, dealloc, mac