Questions tagged [dispatch-async]
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How do I dispatch_sync, dispatch_async, dispatch_after, etc in Swift 3, Swift 4, and beyond?
I have lots of code in Swift 2.x (or even 1.x) projects that looks like this:
// Move to a background thread to do some long running work
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0)) {
let image =…

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Understanding dispatch_async
I have question around this code
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue( DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:
kLatestKivaLoansURL];
[self…

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iPhone - Grand Central Dispatch main thread
I have been using with success, grand central dispatch in my apps, but I was wondering what is the real advantage of using something like this:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ ... do stuff
or…

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Does dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{...}); wait until done?
I have a scenario in my app, where I want to do some time consuming task which consists of some data processing as well as UI update, in a method. My method looks like this,
- (void)doCalculationsAndUpdateUIs {
// DATA PROCESSING 1
// UI…

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Swift 3 warning for dispatch async
I have this code:
DispatchQueue.global(priority: DispatchQueue.GlobalQueuePriority.default).async {
let url = URL(string: itemImageURL )
let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url!)
if data != nil {
…

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dispatch_async and block in iOS
What this piece of code mean?
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
TMBaseParser *parser=[[TMBaseParser alloc] init];
parser.delegate=self;
NSString *post =nil;
NSData…

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DispatchQueue crashing with main.sync in Swift
Please explain to me why I am getting this crash?
Thread 1: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)
in this
DispatchQueue.main.sync {
print("sync")
}
This is my code.
override func viewDidLoad() {
…

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Does using dispatch_get_main_queue() mean that my code will be on the main thread?
Does the following code run on the main thread? Does "main queue" refer to the main thread?
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
^{
// Some code
});

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Swift Async print order?
Does this always print in the order of 1 5 2 4 3?
print("1")
DispatchQueue.main.async {
print("2")
DispatchQueue.main.async {
print(3)
}
print("4")
}
print("5")
I feel the answer is no, but I cannot explain it and hope…

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Objective C - Unit testing dispatch_async block?
I read other posts that come up with solutions to this question. However, their solutions require hacky code to be added to my application in order to be able to test it. To me clean code is more important than unit test.
I use dispatch_async in my…

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synchronized blocks and dispatch_async
What happens to the lock in IOS using @synchronized() when we call dispatch_async() within the block.
For ex:
id myID
-(void) foobar
{
@synchronized(myID){
dispatch_async(){ //do stuff with myID};
}
}
Is the lock still valid…

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Crashed: com.apple.root.default-qos
I have a fairly simple app that parses a RSS feed and shows it's content in a table view. It's available on the App Store. I have Crashlytics crash reporting integrated. I recently received two reports. These are a little difficult to decipher.
This…

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GCD dispatch_async memory leak?
The following code will occupy ~410MB of memory and will not release it again. (The version using dispatch_sync instead of dispatch_async will require ~8MB memory)
I would expect a spike of high memory usage but it should go down again... Where is…

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How to convert (OS_dispatch_data *) 5018112 bytes into NSData to put into UIImage
I've been looking for an answer to this and some seem like they might be what I need but I'm not sure. I found this Question #9152851 and this Question #2617625 and poked around on a bunch of links but I need some direction here.
Essentially, I'm…

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dispatch_async vs dispatch_sync execution order
I have a serial dispatch queue created with:
dispatch_queue_t serialQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.unique.name.queue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
I want to use this serial queue to ensure thread safety for class access, while automatically doing…

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