Objective-C blocks example

This post is inspired by following Tweet when it was mentioned after years of experience, developer still could not remember the blocks syntax.

After years of iOS development, I finally caved & made an xcode snip of an Obj-C block as a property. Still can never remember the syntax 🙈
— Jordan Morgan (@JordanMorgan10) October 26, 2016

If you want to declare block as a property

First use typedef to declare block parameters and return type as follows
(The block we are about to declare takes NSInteger as an input and returns converted NSString object back)
```
  typedef NSString*(^StringConverter)(NSInteger);
  
```

Now declare a property for a given block definition,


    @property (nonatomic, strong) StringConverter stringToIntConverterBlock;

> Some people mentioned to use `copy` for block. But after going through several blog posts and StackOverflow answers, I came to conclusion that it is ok to declare it as `strong` as long as you are using ARC.

If you want to pass a block as a method parameter

After defining block and declaring it as a property, you can pass it to any method as follows,


- (void)convertNumber:(StringConverter)converter {
    // Method definition
    converter(100)
}

And that should be it. You have defined block, declared it as a property and passed it as a parameter to the method.

I am glad to say I am one of the people referenced by the Tweet and hope this short blog post helps someone some day. (Including me of course!)