NSTimer requiring me to add it to a runloop

Question

I am wondering if someone can explain why dispatching back to the main queue and creating a repeating NSTimer I am having to add it to RUN LOOP for it too fire?

Answer 1

Adding the timer to the runloop didn't work in my case. I had to create the timer on the main thread. I was doing this thread creation in a MultipeerConnectivity delegate.

    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        self.timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:self.interval  invocation: self.invocation repeats:YES];
    });