Why not use iOS 7 Multitasking / Background App Refresh?
I am not a developer and I am not too deep into iOS7. But can't you keep the app's session alive by using iOS 7's new multitasking features / Background App Refresh? Or is this feature-set reserved for another type of app? Thanks for the excellent work so far.
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Anonymous commented
Yes! Please add that feature
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ManfredU commented
Would it help to use the background fetch mode?
Fetching Small Amounts of Content Regularly
In iOS 7 and later, an app that retrieves content regularly from the network can ask the system for background execution time to check for new content. You enable support for background fetches from the Background modes section of the Capabilities tab in your Xcode project. (You can also enable this support by including the UIBackgroundModes key with the fetch value in your app’s Info.plist file.) At appropriate times, the system gives background execution time to the apps that support this background mode, launching the app directly into the background if needed. The app object calls the application:performFetchWithCompletionHandler: method of its app delegate to let you know when execution time is available.
When the application:performFetchWithCompletionHandler: method of your delegate is called, use that method to check for new content and to download that content if it is available. When your downloads are complete, execute the provided completion handler block, passing a result that indicates whether content was available. Executing this block tells the system that it can move your app back to the suspended state and evaluate its power usage. Apps that download small amounts of content quickly and accurately reflect when they had content to download are more likely to receive execution time in the future than apps that take longer to download their content.
When downloading any content, it is recommended that you use the NSURLSession class to initiate and manage your downloads. For information about how to use this class to manage upload and download tasks, see URL Loading System Programming Guide.