how to pause and resume NSTimer in iphone

Question

hello I am developing small gameApp. I need to pause the timer,when user goes to another view [say settings view]. when user comes back to that view , I need to resume the

Answer 1

you can use this code to implement pause and resume functionality in NSTimer

//=========new timer update method=============

-(void) updateTimer {

    NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];

    NSTimeInterval timeInterval = [currentDate timeIntervalSinceDate:startDate];
    NSDate *timerDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:timeInterval];


    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"mm:ss.S"];
    [dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0.0]];

    NSString *timeString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:timerDate];
    lblMessage.text = timeString;
    pauseTimeInterval = timeInterval;

   }

 -(IBAction) startBtnPressed:(id)sender
    {
//=============================new update with start pause==================
if(running == NO) {
    running = YES;

    startDate = [NSDate date] ;
    startDate = [[startDate dateByAddingTimeInterval:((-1)*(pauseTimeInterval))] retain];
    stopWatchTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0/10.0 target:self selector:@selector(updateTimer) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
}
else {
    running = NO;
    [stopWatchTimer invalidate];
    stopWatchTimer = nil;
    [self updateTimer];
}
}

declare in .h file NSDate startDate;

NSTimeInterval pauseTimeinterval; and in viewdidload pausetimeInterval=0.0; good luck