Is there a better way to remove a last subview from view

Question

To remove last subview from a view, I use

[[[self.view subviews] lastObject] removeFromSuperview];

I'd use removeLastObject, but can't as subviews is readonly immutable array.

So I need to:

• access all subviews

• get last object

• call method on it to remove it from superview

It works, but is there a better way? This seem to be a bit unnatural. I look for something like [self.view removeLastSubview], but unfortunately it doesn't exist.

Answer 1

To avoid Objective-C's message-sending syntax

_{Note: dont do that}

UIView *lastView = self.view.subviews[self.view.subviews.count-1];
lastView.removeFromSuperview;

_{I said: dont do that}

but seriously:

[[[self.view subviews] lastObject] removeFromSuperview];

is just fine. I'd consider the first snippet code-smell.

Answer 2

Make a category

@interface UIView (Exptened)

- (void)removeLastSubView;

@end

@implementation UIView(Exptened)

- (void)removeLastSubView
{
    [[[self subviews] lastObject] removeFromSuperview];
}

@end