Hello everyone, Thanks so much for all your responses. I think that I will rely only on the Local Notifications then.
Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio -----Original Message----- From: Mike Abdullah [mailto:mabdul...@karelia.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:56 AM To: Fritz Anderson Cc: Claudio Maximiliano Edison Bastos Iorio; Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Issues with applications running on background (Alarm Application) > On 17 Dec 2014, at 17:18, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Claudio Maximiliano Edison Bastos Iorio >> <selecter...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> soundName property is OK, and allows to use any embedded sound. But there’s >> no way to load any custom view dispatched right from the LocalNotification, >> at least no with a previous user interaction. >> >> I’ve just found UIApplication’s beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler, >> who allows me to run a background task. >> Based on Apple, the purpose of this background task is for instance to >> complete a server request when the app goes to background. >> >> I still need to check if this is a proper solution, however, I wonder if >> Apple will allow me to use this task to keep my Application running on the >> background. Do you guys have any idea about that? > > You should study the documentation again, taking care against confirmation > bias. beginBackground… really is for brief completions. iOS will allow you > ten minutes at most. You are subject to eviction at any time before, so you > must structure your task to tolerate its not completing. Within those > constraints, you can do whatever you like in that time. > > If it's a matter of a download, which I gather it isn't, look at the > NSURLDownload family. I think you mean NSURLSession here. NSURLDownload is Mac-only and semi-deprecated in favour of URL Sessions. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com