How to create singleton class in objective c

Some time you need to create only one instance of a class and you also want to restrict more than one instance of that class. In this situation you need to create singleton class.

Singleton Class  is a class which has one and only one object.

To create a singleton class in objective C first of all

Create a new class subclass of  NSObject and add the desired properties in .h file.

#import 

@interface User : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *userName;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *password;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *status;
+ (id)CreateUser;
+ (id)getUser;
@end

Here + sign indicates that methods are static. Its mean we can call these methods without creating instance of class.

Now go to .m file, synthesize  properties and implement method

@synthesize userName;
@synthesize password;
@synthesize status;

static User *user = nil;
#pragma mark Singleton Methods

+ (id)CreateUser {
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        user = [[self alloc] init];
    });
    return user;
}
+ (id)getUser {
    return user;
}

Here dispatch_once() is used to execute a block once and only once and it needs pointer to a dispatch_once_t that is used to test whether the block has completed or not.

You can use this code. Call createUser to create user and getUser to get already crated user.