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Nic Huang
Courses Plus Student 10,573 PointsRetrieving Data from Parse
In the video, we declare an NSArray instance "messages" to retrieve PFObjects, which are messages sent to recipients in this case. But I am wondering why we don't have to make it NSMutableArray since messages keep coming?
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David Kaneshiro Jr.
29,247 PointsI believe that an NSArray is used instead of an NSMutableArray is because of the way we retrieve the messages from Parse. Every time we load the inbox screen we always grab all the messages stored in our inbox and replace the old array of messages with a new array. Since we don't only retrieve new messages from our inbox, we don't have the need to append individual messages to the array. We are always rebuilding the entire array every time we load the inbox screen.
Nic Huang
Courses Plus Student 10,573 PointsNic Huang
Courses Plus Student 10,573 PointsThanks for your explanation!! It's really helpful.