iOS Background Fetching can be Expensive
Posted February 24th, 2014 @ 11:24am by Erik J. Barzeski
Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS Background Fetch
My first example of this was when I added Background Fetch to Check the Weather. A weather app's primary function is displaying up-to-the-minute, constantly changing data so in my initial iOS 7 update I experimented with adding highly frequent background updates. The result was far more dramatic than I'd expected. Here are my weather API requests (which cost 0.01¢ per request) per day once the update went live. I saw an immediate jump in traffic, roughly 16x normal. Suffice to say I immediately had to scale back on my requested update frequency.
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