Top "Multitasking" questions

Multitasking is the apparent simultaneous execution of two or more tasks by a computer.

How can I run both of these methods 'at the same time' in .NET 4.5?

I have a method which does 2 independent pieces of logic. I was hoping I can run them both at the …

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What is starvation?

In multitasking systems, some abnormal conditions prevent progress of executing processes or threads. I'll refer to both processes and threads …

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iPhone - Backgrounding to poll for events

For quite a while I'd been looking into a way in my iPhone app to poll every X minutes to …

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How to respond to push notification view if app is already running in the background

I have something fairly simple I want to do. I attach a custom piece of data to some push notifications …

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Use of background/foreground methods in AppDelegate

I'm planning to implement multi-task in my app. I can see many methods here to do that in the AppDelegate …

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Prevent iOS from taking screen capture of app before going into background

You all might know that iOS takes a screen shot of your application before throwing it into the background. This …

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Is it possible to opt your iPad app out of multitasking on iOS 9

I have a large app that I will need some time to optimize for iOS9. Edit: What I am worried …

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How to do multithreading, concurrency or parallelism in iOS Swift?

Is there any way to create a worker thread in Swift?, for example, if there's a major functionality that requires …

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Design Patterns for Multithreading

Multitasking seems to be a disaster at times when big projects crashes due to shared mutation of I would say …

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Unable to create UIBackgroundModes key in Info.plist for iOS4

I have an audio application which works great for iPhone 3.1.x versions. I am trying to upgrade it to iOS4.0 …

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