Developer Notes

Debugging & Testing

iOS Background Refresh

Testing must be performed on a real device.

1. Start the app
2. Send app to background to schedule tasks
3. Pause execution
4. Paste launch command into the debugger
   • For maintenance:
     e -l objc -- (void)[[BGTaskScheduler sharedScheduler] _simulateLaunchForTaskWithIdentifier:@"net.devsci.den.maintenance"]
   • For refresh:
     e -l objc -- (void)[[BGTaskScheduler sharedScheduler] _simulateLaunchForTaskWithIdentifier:@"net.devsci.den.refresh"]

Further reading: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/starting-and-terminating-tasks-during-development