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    <p>I need to make multiple asynchronous service calls in the application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method from my application delegate in order to retrieve some data from a service to be used across various controllers in my app. I have control over the service, and I've designed the API to be as RESTful as possible, so I need to make multiple calls during app initialization.</p> <p>What I want to do is to show a loading view with a progress indicator - similar to the default splash screen from Default.png - and remove that view once the service calls have completed and I have the initial values I need. This is pretty easy to do if there's only one service call, since I can simply hook that logic into the connectionDidFinishLoading: delegate method of NSURLConnection by hiding the loading view and displaying the root controller.</p> <p>However, with multiple service calls, it becomes tricky. I can "chain" everything together and fire off one request, wait for it to finish/fail, then fire off the second request, and so on until I get to the last request. In the last request, I then hide the loading view and display the normal view. However, this can get unwieldy with multiple service calls, and the code becomes hard to understand and follow.</p> <p>Any suggestions on the best approach for this?</p> <p>I'm thinking one solution is to have a singleton class responsible for making service calls and app initialization. The singleton object will fire off all necessary requests in parallel on start, and each fail/finish callback will check if every request has finished. If all requests have finished, then it can call some method in the application delegate and tell it to hide the loading view, show the root controller, etc.</p> <p>Thoughts?</p>
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