Is there any problem with the usage of static variables in Objective-C?

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Is there any problem with the usage of static variable in Objective-C? If yes, please explain.

Reason for usage of static variable

I have two classes

MainView
WifiConnection

When the application loads, I am in the MainView class and will call a method from the WifiConnection class(method name:send).send method to initialize instream and outstream which is declared in the WiFiConnection class.

So it will send data successfully the first time. But sending the second time I do not need to initialize instream and outstream which is already initialized.

But this time when I look instream and outstream value it will be null. So I declared these variables as static and solved the above problem.

And also, how do I declare a class type variable as global?

Deepak Danduprolu · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23 13:14:34Z

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Since you need only a single instance of the class, you can take a look at Singletons. They are based of static variables. This will involve some minor modification to your code and you can call functions on instances like [[MainView sharedMainView] showMessage].

This is the best approach of using static variables.

answered May 23, 2011 at 13:14

Deepak Danduprolu

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