Data Oriented iOS Application

Question

I am new to objective-c / cocoa programming. I am making an application that must constantly synchronize with the server and update its presentation. Now in a nutshell, this is what I thought: initiate NSTimer to start every second or two, contact the server, if there are changes, update the view. Is this a good way to do this? I read elsewhere that you can have a thread running in the background that tracks changes and updates the view. I have never worked with threads before, and I know that they can be quite unpleasant, and you need a lot of memory management experience to get the most out of them.

I have one month to get this app. What do you guys recommend? Just use NSTimer and do it the way I do, though ... or study multithreading and do it like that (but remember the time frames).

Thank!

Answer 1

Think about the requirements. The most important issues are IMO:

• Should your application receive new data while running in the background?
• Does your application have to respond, that is, not sluggish when it retrieves new data?

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