AlamoFire Download In Background Session
Answer : Update Based on this amazing tutorial, I have put together an example project available on GitHub. It has an example for background session management. According to Apple's URL Loading System Programming Guide: In both iOS and OS X, when the user relaunches your app, your app should immediately create background configuration objects with the same identifiers as any sessions that had outstanding tasks when your app was last running, then create a session for each of those configuration objects. These new sessions are similarly automatically reassociated with ongoing background activity. So apparently by using the appropriate background session configuration instances, your downloads will never be "in flux". I have also found this answer really helpful. Original answer From Alamofire's GitHub page: Applications can create managers for background and ephemeral sessions, as well as new managers that customize the default ses...