iOS How do We Express an Array or Collections of Objects?

[teguh123]

NSArray?

Is there a better class?

For example, in vb.net I have generic.list(of SomeClass), which I believe is better than just SomeClass(). However both are easily interchangeable due to linq .toList and .toArray function.

 

[Nayefc]

What do you mean by a "better" way?

In Objective-C, we use NSArray class to create arrays.

 

[chown33]

Collections Programming Topics: Arrays: Ordered Collections

Objective-C doesn't have generics.

 

[KnightWRX]

What are you trying to accomplish exactly ? Maybe if you grounded your question in something more tangible than comparing languages, we could help you with the NeXTSTEP/Cocoa Touch/Objective-C answer.

As it stands, NSArray or NSMutableArray are it for "lists of objects".

 

[Sykte]

NSArray?

Is there a better class?

For example, in vb.net I have generic.list(of SomeClass), which I believe is better than just SomeClass(). However both are easily interchangeable due to linq .toList and .toArray function.

NSArray & NSMutableArray holds objects not data types so unlike VB its does not require multiple array types.

In VB you define a generic to hold multiple data types at one time otherwise a list would be restricted to only one type at a time ie: string, int, custom object.