API to detect if app is multitasking

Originator:stephen.darlington
Number:rdar://21612265 Date Originated:30-Jun-2015 05:13 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS Product Version:9b2
Classification:Feature (New) Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:

I’d like to see a non-hacky way of detecting whether my app is multitasking. The use-case I have in mind is as follows: my app stores a list of bookmarks. If the app is multtasking I’d like the option of sending the bookmark to Safari (presumably in the other window) rather than to the internal web view. 

Steps to Reproduce:

Find API for checking whether current app is multi-tasking.

Expected Results:

Find one and use it!

Actual Results:

Can’t find one. 

Regression:

Nope.

Notes:

This is possible by comparing UIScreen with UIWindow but that feels a bit hacky.

Comments

To be clear, I mean the new side-by-side multi-tasking on the iPad Air 2, not the background processing that has been in place since iOS 4.

By stephen.darlington at June 30, 2015, 4:47 p.m. (reply...)

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