Does UIView's addSubview really retain the view?

Question

I ran into a situation that seems to suggest otherwise. In the following code snippet, if I remove the line: self.navigationController = nav, the root controller\'s view wo

Answer 1

This doesn't look lika a retain/release question to me. You view won't show up if you comment out self.navigationController = nav; because then in the next line, [window addSubview:self.navigationController.view] your self.navigationController property won't be set. It's probably nil or it would crash but can't say for sure without more of the code.