Swift: How to access in AppDelegate variable from the View controller?

Question

I would like to write in the text or csv (prefer) file the variable from the view controller.

Indeed I am doing a drawing app and I would like to write in the file the current position of the finger.

class ViewController: UIViewController {var lastPoint = CGPoint.zeroPoint ... }

I would like to have access to lastPoint.x and lastPoint.y from the AppDelegate. how I could do that ? Thank you.

Answer 1

Your question is full of confusion but if that's what you are looking for:

You can access the appDelegate by getting a reference to it like that:

let appDelegate = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as! AppDelegate

after that if you have store a property called lastPoint in your appDelegate you can access its components very simply like that:

let x = appDelegate.lastPoint.x
let y = appDelegate.lastPoint.y

If you need to access your viewController properties from the AppDelegate, then I suggest having a reference to your view controller in your appdelegate:

var myViewController: ViewController!

then when your view controller is created you can store a reference to it in the appdelegate property:

If your create your view controller outside of your appDelegate:

Swift 1-2 syntax

var theViewController = ViewController()
let appDelegate = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as! AppDelegate
appDelegate.myViewController = theViewController

Swift 3-4 syntax

var theViewController = ViewController()
let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
appDelegate.myViewController = theViewController

If you create your view controller inside of your appDelegate:

self.myViewController = ViewController()

After that you can access your data from your viewcontroller from your appdelegate just by accessing its property like that:

let x = self.myViewController.lastPoint.x
let y = self.myViewController.lastPoint.y