Workaround to accomplish protected properties in Objective-C

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a workaround to declare @protected properties in Objective-C so only subclasses in the hierarchy can access them (read only, not write). I read that th

Answer 1

Sure, that works fine. Apple uses the same approach for example in the UIGestureRecognizer class. Subclasses have to import the additional UIGestureRecognizerSubclass.h file and override the methods that are declared in that file.