If you want it to show when the app isn't running, you need to use a
push message, have your server watch the feed and send a push to the
phone when it sees a change. You can't easily do long running
background tasks on the iphone*
PushSharp (on github) is a good place to start with this. Or
UrbanAirship (paid service).
If it's just while your app is running, start a thread, load the feed, and then
InvokeOnMainThread(delegate {
//use a UIAlertView like normal here
});
InvokeOnMainThread is on any NSObject-derived class, so if you dont
have one handy, you can
new NSObject().InvokeOnMainThread(....
* unless you are a VOIP client, a GPS navigation app, or you register
for significant location changes, but that's not predicable, so if the
user isn't moving, they will never get a change
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Aziz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guys How I can make an alert view when there is a new video (feed) from that
> channel ?
>
> I want to make an option in my prog which is :
>
> tell me when there is a new video --- switch with yes or no ---
>
> how to make that ?
>
>
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