I have been looking over the internet, but could not find the perfect tutorial for threading in iOS, currently i am working on iOS 5 , tutorial found on web were old, my app needs to fetch data from webservices, so I want to call network operation in a thread, I have a tabbar, in each tab it loads different type of data from web, as it start fetching data , I dont want my app to stuck on that tab, i want that user can navigate to other tab meanwhile its fetching data for that tab. how can it be possible
EDIT: I want to have a flow :
//in a thread
fetchDataFromWeb(){//during this call activity indicator
//fetch and make an array of ojbects
}
when data is loaded trigger the populate funciton
laoddata(){//remove activity indicator
//load tableview and other views
}
how will i know my thread finished its process
Take a look to NSOperation, NSThread or Grand Central Dispatch
Edit: NSThread example
//on main thread on some action
NSDictionary *myParameterDitionary = [..];
[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(aBackThreadMethod:) toTarget:self withObject:myParameterDitionary];
//this is on back thread called
- (void)aBackThreadMethod:(NSDictionary *)variablesDictionary{
@autoreleasepool {
//presess data
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [..];
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(didABackThreadMethod:) withObject:responseDictionary waitUntilDone:YES];
}
}
//call back on main thread
- (void)didFinishABackThreadMethod:(NSDictionary *)responseDictionary{
//do stuff ex update views
}
The @autoreleasepool is for ARC. If you use manual memory management you have to do:
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
[pool release];