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iOS

Posted by Marko Mihic Jeftic
Marko Mihic Jeftic
1,500 Points

Button programming one within the viewDidLoad method.

Hello! I did two implementations for this extra task. I would be very grateful if you can comment them for me, which one is better to use and why.

Here they are (one is active and other is commented):

UIButton *btn = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(29, 477, 261, 49)];

// UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; // btn.frame = CGRectMake(29, 477, 261, 49);

[btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button-off"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button-on"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

1 Answer

Soojin Ro
Soojin Ro
13,331 Points

I think there is no significant difference in two ways that you alloc and init UIButton. buttonWithType: is just a simple method that does the allocation for you.