Relationship between AppDelegate and main.m

Question

Ok, I\'m totally new to obj-c + cocoa, so this is probably obvious, but here goes:

I\'ve been moving from command line apps to cocoa apps in learning how to work with ob

Answer 1

main.m contains the main() function, which is the entry point for the program, it's run first. Then it calls UIApplicationMain(), which does the OS-specific application setup stuff, and loads the main Interface Builder .xib file which contains your app delegate instance.

That is, without main.m your app delegate wouldn't even get loaded.