Can I schedule a task weekly?

I was wondering if it was possible to have an app perform an action periodically.


This period might be every day, week, or month - it hasn't been decided yet. The task would send a content availability check to the server alongside a bit of usage data.

The documentation for Background Execution mentions "Background fetch - The app regularly downloads and processes small amounts of content from the network.", but I'm unclear on what the limitations of this are (any scheduling limitations, app 'genre' limitations, etc.).

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I was wondering if it was possible to have an app perform an action periodically.

Not in general.

This period might be every day, week, or month - it hasn't been decided yet. The task would send a content availability check to the server alongside a bit of usage data.

It sounds like your best option here is to move that check to a server and then have the server issue a push notification when new content is available. This is exactly what ‘silent’ push notifications were designed for.

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