How can I delay a method call for 1 second?

Question

Is there an easy way delay a method call for 1 second?

I have a UIImageView that reacts on a touch event. When the touch is detected, some animations ha

Answer 1

You can do this

[self performSelector:@selector(MethodToExecute) withObject:nil afterDelay:1.0 ];

Answer 2

Swift 2.x

let delayTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(1 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)))
 dispatch_after(delayTime, dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
 print("do some work")
}

Swift 3.x --&-- Swift 4

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) {
    print("do some work")
}

or pass a escaping closure

func delay(seconds: Double, completion: @escaping()-> Void) {
    DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + seconds, execute: completion)
}

Answer 3

NOTE: this will pause your whole thread, not just the one method.
Make a call to sleep/wait/halt for 1000 ms just before calling your method?

Sleep(1000); // does nothing the next 1000 mSek

Methodcall(params); // now do the real thing

Edit: The above answer applies to the general question "How can I delay a method call for 1 second?", which was the question asked at the time of the answer (infact the answer was given within 7 minutes of the original question :-)). No Info was given about the language at that time, so kindly stop bitching about the proper way of using sleep i XCode og the lack of classes...

Answer 4

Use in Swift 3

perform(<Selector>, with: <object>, afterDelay: <Time in Seconds>)

Answer 5

You can also:

[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
                 animations:^{ self.view.alpha = 1.1; /* Some fake chages */ }
                 completion:^(BOOL finished)
{
    NSLog(@"A second lapsed.");
}];

This case you have to fake some changes to some view to get the animation work. It is hacky indeed, but I love the block based stuff. Or wrap up @mcfedr answer below.

---

waitFor(1.0, ^
{
    NSLog(@"A second lapsed");
});

---

typedef void (^WaitCompletionBlock)();
void waitFor(NSTimeInterval duration, WaitCompletionBlock completion)
{
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, duration * NSEC_PER_SEC),
                   dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^
    { completion(); });
}