Using CALayer Delegate

Question

I have a UIView whose layers will have sublayers. I\'d like to assign delegates for each of those sublayers, so the delegate method can tell the layer what to draw. My que

Answer 1

Take a look at the docs on formal vs informal protocols. The CALayer is implementing an informal protocol which means that you can set any object to be its delegate and it will determine if it can send messages to that delegate by checking the delegate for a particular selector (i.e. -respondsToSelector).

I typically use my view controller as the delegate for the layer in question.