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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
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Checking for Background Availability
All devices capable of running iOS 6 or iOS 5 support performing activities in the background, referred to as multitasking in Apple’s documentation. If the target app needs to support iOS 4, note that there are a few devices that do not support multitasking. Any code written to take advantage of multitasking should check to ensure that multitasking is supported by the device. When the user taps the Start Background Task button in the sample app, the startBackgroundTaskTouched: method in ICFViewController will be called to check for multitasking support.
- (IBAction)startBackgroundTaskTouched:(id)sender{ UIDevice* device = [UIDevice currentDevice]; if (! [device isMultitaskingSupported ...
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