How to show activity indicator while tableView loads?

Question

When I switch between my tabs it loads some seconds and I want to know that my data is loading. For that I decided to add an activity indicator.

I wrote a little functio

Answer 1

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Place this below your class:

let indicator:UIActivityIndicatorView = UIActivityIndicatorView  (activityIndicatorStyle: UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle.Gray)

Place this in your loadView():

indicator.color = UIColor .magentaColor()
indicator.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 10.0)
indicator.center = self.view.center
self.view.addSubview(indicator)
indicator.bringSubviewToFront(self.view)
indicator.startAnimating()

In my case, I am requesting json objects through a func request, so I placed this at the end of that function to remove the activity indicator once the data loads:

self.indicator.stopAnimating()
self.indicator.hidesWhenStopped = true