When an event happens in a view, for EXAMPLE a touch event, the view will fire the event to a chain of UIResponder objects associated with the UIView. The FIRST UIResponder is the UIView itself, if it does not HANDLE the event then it continues up the chain to until UIResponder handles the event. The chain will include UIViewControllers, parent UIViews and their associated UIViewControllers, if NONE of those handle the event then the UIWindow is asked if it can handle it and finally if that doesn't handle the event then the UIApplicationDelegate is asked.

When an event happens in a view, for example a touch event, the view will fire the event to a chain of UIResponder objects associated with the UIView. The first UIResponder is the UIView itself, if it does not handle the event then it continues up the chain to until UIResponder handles the event. The chain will include UIViewControllers, parent UIViews and their associated UIViewControllers, if none of those handle the event then the UIWindow is asked if it can handle it and finally if that doesn't handle the event then the UIApplicationDelegate is asked.