Getting a reference to the UIApplication delegate

Question

I'm writing my first iPhone application and I'm having trouble switching views. I have 2 views and a reference to each in the AppDelegate (an instance of UIApplicationDelegate). I create instances of both in the applicationDidFinishLaunching and immediately show the first view. This works fine.

The problem is the reference to the other view is in the AppDelegate and I can't figure out how to get a reference to it so I can switch to the other view. Is there a way to get a reference to the main UIApplication or UIApplicationDelegate objects?

Answer 1

Use:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];

Answer 2

Yes, UIApplication is a singleton, and uses the normal singleton pattern for Objective-C:

[UIApplication sharedApplication];

You can get your delegate class directly from it:

MyApplicationDelegate *appDelegate = (MyApplicationDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];