How to use activity indicator view on iPhone?

Question

An activity indicator view is useful in many applications. Any ideas about how to add, activiate and dismiss an activity indicator view on iPhone?

All the methods for this are welcomed here.

Answer 1

The documentation on this is pretty clear. It's a UIView subclass so you use it like any other view. To start/stop the animation you use

[activityIndicator startAnimating];
[activityIndicator stopAnimating];

Answer 2

Take a look at the open source WordPress application. They have a very re-usable window they have created for displaying an "activity in progress" type display over top of whatever view your application is currently displaying.

http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

The files you want are:

• WPActivityIndicator.xib
• RoundedRectBlack.png
• WPActivityIndicator.h
• WPActivityIndicator.m

Then to show it use something like:

[[WPActivityIndicator sharedActivityIndicator] show];

And hide with:

[[WPActivityIndicator sharedActivityIndicator] hide];

Answer 3

Create:

spinner = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge];
[spinner setCenter:CGPointMake(kScreenWidth/2.0, kScreenHeight/2.0)]; // I do this because I'm in landscape mode
[self.view addSubview:spinner]; // spinner is not visible until started

Start:

[spinner startAnimating];

Stop:

 [spinner stopAnimating];

When you're finally done, remove the spinner from the view and release.

Answer 4

in regards to:

Take a look at the open source WordPress application. They have a very re-usable window they have created for displaying an "activity in progress" type display over top of whatever view your application is currently displaying.

note that if you do utilise this code you MUST provide ALL the sourcecode to your own application to any user that requests it. You need to be aware that they may decide to repackage your code and sell it on the store themselves. This is all provided for under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

If you don't want to be forced into opening your sourcecode then you cannot use anything from the wordpress iphone application including the, referenced activity progress window, without forcing the GPL to apply to your own.