Objective-C is @synthesize required or optional?

Question

sorry I\'m a newbie iOS developer, recently I\'ve briefly heard that @synthesize is now @synthesize in a certain version of Xcode and that the compiler will auto synthesize

Answer 1

No we don't need to do that as of Xcode 4.4, which added a feature called Default Synthesis Of Properties.

Simply put, it generates this automatically:

@synthesize name = _name;