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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Data Modeling Using a Custom Class

Posted by Sayana Narayanan
Sayana Narayanan
1,221 Points

designated initializer

Create an instance of the Song class with the designated initializer initWithSinger:(NSString *)s and singer named "James Brown".

Song *popSong = ;

can you help to answer this

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

Initializers are called by first calling the alloc method, followed by whatever initializer you want to call. For example, I could call the initWithObjects method for an NSArray object like so:

```NSArray *someArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"a", @"b", @"c", nil];