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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK
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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK

by Kyle Richter, Joe Keeley
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Timer-Based Achievements

One of the most popular achievements in iOS gaming is to play for a certain amount of time. In Whack-a-Cac com.dragonforged.whackacac.play5Mins is used to track the user’s progress towards five minutes of total gameplay. This particular example exists for the loss-of-accuracy problem that was faced in the Whack 1000 example from earlier in this section, and it can be overcome in the same manner.

To track time, a NSTimer will be created. To determine how often the timer should fire, you will need to determine what 1% of five minutes is.

play5MinTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:3.0 target:self selector:@selector(play5MinTick) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

When the timer fires a ...

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