Swift 3

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var urlLink: URL!
    var defaultSession: URLSession!
    var downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask!
}

// MARK: Button Pressed
    @IBAction func btnDownloadPressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
        let urlLink1 = URL.init(string: "https://github.com/VivekVithlani/QRCodeReader/archive/master.zip")
        startDownloading(url: urlLink!)
}
    @IBAction func btnResumePressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
    downloadTask.resume()
}

@IBAction func btnStopPressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
    downloadTask.cancel()
}

@IBAction func btnPausePressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
    downloadTask.suspend()
}

    func startDownloading (url:URL) {
        let backgroundSessionConfiguration = URLSessionConfiguration.background(withIdentifier: "backgroundSession")
        defaultSession = Foundation.URLSession(configuration: backgroundSessionConfiguration, delegate: self, delegateQueue: OperationQueue.main)
        downloadProgress.setProgress(0.0, animated: false)
        downloadTask = defaultSession.downloadTask(with: urlLink)
        downloadTask.resume()
    }

// MARK:- URLSessionDownloadDelegate
func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, didFinishDownloadingTo location: URL) {
    print("File download succesfully")
}

func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, didWriteData bytesWritten: Int64, totalBytesWritten: Int64, totalBytesExpectedToWrite: Int64) {
    downloadProgress.setProgress(Float(totalBytesWritten)/Float(totalBytesExpectedToWrite), animated: true)
}

func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?) {
    downloadTask = nil
    downloadProgress.setProgress(0.0, animated: true)
    if (error != nil) {
        print("didCompleteWithError \(error?.localizedDescription)")
    }
    else {
        print("The task finished successfully")
    }
}