Question

I’m trying to figure out how to do log running tasks in Objective-C (iOS) in a way that is not gonna hang the UI thread, kinda like background workers or the TPL in .Net.

I’m looking for a way to handle this kind of work in a maintainable way that is considered a best practice for iOS dev?

Answer 1

There are many ways you can do that, like NSThread, NSOperation/NSOperationQueue classes or GCD. Example code (GCD):

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
    //background work
});

You can read about it here: Concurrency Programming Guide