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11,042 Pointssuper viewdidappear, I think that's redundant
At 8.57 we add
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
in the viewDidAppear implementation, but why we add it?
I noticed that if we remove it out, the result won't change, I think that's a redundant statement...
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Holger Liesegang
50,595 PointsHi Francesco,
when you are overriding a method (and that's exactly what's happening here), you want to keep what the method of the superclass is doing and just add something new on top of it (in your subclass). That's what you're doing when calling super: the superclass is doing what it's supposed to do first. So when overriding a method without using super it might go well for a time but it most likely will crash your App at some point in the future.
Also to be 100% sure you can consult the Apple documentation for viewDidAppear: which states : "If you override this method, you must call super at some point in your implementation."
Kind Regards Holger
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11,042 PointsThanks! Very clear explanation!