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larswik

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Sep 8, 2006
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I created a little ticker tape for my app. Every hour it loads a txt file from my server and displays that information on my root viewController. With that timer I am not creating a [NSTimer invalidate] since I alway ways want it to run.

When the app moves to the background, but is still in memory, will that timer suspend it's self until it becomes the foreground app again? My concerns were for it draining the battery even if it is in the background and was still running?
 
Yes. It will resume automatically when it comes to foreground. Network will not stop in background.
 
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