iPhone Memory Management

Question

I\'m working on an app and I\'d like to make sure that I\'m managing memory properly and releasing everything that I should. In my viewDidLoad method I allocate some variab

Answer 1

You're not creating the language string; you're just getting back a reference. Only methods that have "new", "copy", or "alloc" in them (by convention) return non-autoreleased objects. For all other methods, it's assumed that you'll discard the variable, so if you want to keep it around, you MUST retain it. The flip side of this is: you should not release these returned objects unless YOU retained them.

The other problem in this code is that backgroundImageName is being assigned twice. The first initialization is being lost. Get rid of it, and just keep the second one, and get rid of both -release calls, they're not needed.