Showing Waiting Alert View At Load

Question

I would like when my app starts for it to show an Alert view for about 5 seconds, then depending on the outcome of a background process, it will show another Alert view.

Answer 1

Don't use sleep on the main thread. Ever. Also don't update UI from a background thread.

What you want to do is to display your alert on the main thread and return.

Then, when your networking code completes, have it send a message to the main thread. In the main thread, when you receive a notice that it's done, remove the alert.