How do you add an action to a button programmatically in xcode

Question

I know how to add an IBAction to a button by dragging from the interface builder, but I want to add the action programmatically to save time and to avoid switching back and

Answer 1

UIButton inherits from UIControl. That has all of the methods to add/remove actions: UIControl Class Reference. Look at the section "Preparing and Sending Action Messages", which covers – sendAction:to:forEvent: and – addTarget:action:forControlEvents:.