Blocks instead of performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: [duplicate]

There's no built-in way to do that, but it's not too bad to add via a category:

@implementation NSObject (PerformBlockAfterDelay)

- (void)performBlock:(void (^)(void))block 
          afterDelay:(NSTimeInterval)delay 
{
    block = [[block copy] autorelease];
    [self performSelector:@selector(fireBlockAfterDelay:) 
               withObject:block 
               afterDelay:delay];
}

- (void)fireBlockAfterDelay:(void (^)(void))block {
    block();
}

@end

Credit to Mike Ash for the basic implementation.

Here's a simple technique, based on GCD, that I'm using:

void RunBlockAfterDelay(NSTimeInterval delay, void (^block)(void))
{
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, NSEC_PER_SEC*delay),
      dispatch_get_current_queue(), block);
}

I'm not a GCD expert, and I'd be interested in comments on this solution.

Another way (perhaps the worst way to do this for many reasons) is:

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.0 delay:5.0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction animations:^{
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
    //do stuff here
}];