Framework Linking to AppDelegate or ViewController

My goal: Create a Cocoa Touch Framework that is a syncing framework for different Cloud API Storage Services (Azure, AWS, Filemaker API*)

Currently, I use FileMaker Pro with FileMaker Go IOS APP SDK the most. FileMaker Inc. has created a Cocoa Touch Framework bundle that is basically an entire application within it, I assume the AppDelegate and ViewController classes are within it, but I can't tell because they are compiled.

I would like to create a second Framework with Coca Touch that can run background tasks / downloads triggered by my custom framework.

I have been sucessfull at embedding my framework along side FileMaker Go's iOS App SDK and running commands, I can push JSON, get JSON, and download files but only in the main thread, once the app goes to sleep the download triggered from my framework stops. I am using NSURLSession to do all of this. But as soon as I try to attach a NSURLSession Background Config everything stops working and fails.

I do not have direct access to the App's AppDelegate or ViewController Classes. I cannot modify them direclty.

NSURLSessionConfiguration *backgroundConfiguration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration backgroundSessionConfiguration:@"com.captech.NSURLSample.BackgroundSession"]; NSURLSession *backgroundSession = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:backgroundConfiguration delegate:self delegateQueue:nil];

My problem lies I think in the delegate:self identifier. This never resolves. I have tried removing it but nothing downloads. I have tried a PCH prefix header to identiy the appdelegate but not luck. I also trid the (MyAppdD *) UIApp SharedApp delegate to try to get a reference but since the Framework I'm building isnt embeded in the app yet I don't think it can resolve.

But if I can figure out how to reference the appdelegate or get around attaching new tasks to it so that I can run background downloads from my Cocoa Touch Framework that would be awesome.