确保您收藏了调试魔术页面。这应该是你在寻找Cocoa bug的源头时碰壁的第一站。

例如，它会告诉你如何找到你第一次分配内存的方法，后来导致崩溃(比如在应用程序终止期间)。

使用LLVM/Clang静态分析仪

注意:在Xcode 4中，这是内置在IDE中。

你可以使用Clang Static Analyzer在Mac OS X 10.5上分析你的C和Objective-C代码(还没有c++)。安装和使用起来很简单:

从本页下载最新版本。 从命令行，cd到您的项目目录。 执行scan-build -k -V xcodebuild。

(还有一些额外的限制等等，特别是你应该在“调试”配置中分析一个项目——详情请参阅http://clang.llvm.org/StaticAnalysisUsage.html——但这或多或少就是它的总结。)

分析器然后为您生成一组网页，显示可能的内存管理和编译器无法检测的其他基本问题。

#import "MyClass.h"

@interface MyClass ()
- (void) someMethod;
- (void) someOtherMethod;
@end

@implementation MyClass

@kendell

而不是:

@interface MyClass (private)
- (void) someMethod
- (void) someOtherMethod
@end

Use:

@interface MyClass ()
- (void) someMethod
- (void) someOtherMethod
@end

Objective-C 2.0新功能。

Apple的Objective-C 2.0参考中描述了类扩展。

类扩展允许你在主类@interface块之外的位置为类声明额外的必需API

所以它们是实际类的一部分——而不是类之外的(私有)类别。细微但重要的区别。

只释放dealloc方法中的属性。如果你想释放属性所持有的内存，只需将其设置为nil:

self.<property> = nil;

其中一些已经被提到过，但以下是我能想到的:

Follow KVO naming rules. Even if you don't use KVO now, in my experience often times it's still beneficial in the future. And if you are using KVO or bindings, you need to know things are going work the way they are supposed to. This covers not just accessor methods and instance variables, but to-many relationships, validation, auto-notifying dependent keys, and so on. Put private methods in a category. Not just the interface, but the implementation as well. It's good to have some distance conceptually between private and non-private methods. I include everything in my .m file. Put background thread methods in a category. Same as above. I've found it's good to keep a clear conceptual barrier when you're thinking about what's on the main thread and what's not. Use #pragma mark [section]. Usually I group by my own methods, each subclass's overrides, and any information or formal protocols. This makes it a lot easier to jump to exactly what I'm looking for. On the same topic, group similar methods (like a table view's delegate methods) together, don't just stick them anywhere. Prefix private methods & ivars with _. I like the way it looks, and I'm less likely to use an ivar when I mean a property by accident. Don't use mutator methods / properties in init & dealloc. I've never had anything bad happen because of it, but I can see the logic if you change the method to do something that depends on the state of your object. Put IBOutlets in properties. I actually just read this one here, but I'm going to start doing it. Regardless of any memory benefits, it seems better stylistically (at least to me). Avoid writing code you don't absolutely need. This really covers a lot of things, like making ivars when a #define will do, or caching an array instead of sorting it each time the data is needed. There's a lot I could say about this, but the bottom line is don't write code until you need it, or the profiler tells you to. It makes things a lot easier to maintain in the long run. Finish what you start. Having a lot of half-finished, buggy code is the fastest way to kill a project dead. If you need a stub method that's fine, just indicate it by putting NSLog( @"stub" ) inside, or however you want to keep track of things.