ios confused about strong/weak references

Question

I\'ve looked through the questions on strong/weak references, and understand the reason for using weak (the parent to child relationship). However, I\'m confused about speci

Answer 1

When you add a subview to a view, the parent will retain it's subview under the covers. Yes this is a parent child relationship. If you are creating your own UIView subclasses, you will be doing the same.

Parents have a strong relationship with their children, but children should never have a strong relationship on their parents. This can lead to retain cycles, where neither can be released because they both have a strong connection with one another.

Strong is the default, you will tend to use weak when you are using the delegate pattern.

Maybe you should post more specific info about the problem you are having with the received memory warning, as this question is quite general about memory semantics.