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

Another approach, In my code I added an extension for UITableView (Swift 2.3) :

extension UITableView {
    func activityIndicator(center: CGPoint = CGPointZero, loadingInProgress: Bool) {
        let tag = 12093
        if loadingInProgress {
            var indicator = UIActivityIndicatorView()
            indicator = UIActivityIndicatorView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 40, 40))
            indicator.tag = tag
            indicator.activityIndicatorViewStyle = UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle.WhiteLarge
            indicator.color = //Your color here
            indicator.center = center
            indicator.startAnimating()
            indicator.hidesWhenStopped = true
            self.superview?.addSubview(indicator)
        }else {
             if let indicator = self.superview?.viewWithTag(tag) as? UIActivityIndicatorView { {
                indicator.stopAnimating()
                indicator.removeFromSuperview()
            }
        }
    }
}

Note : My tableview is embedded in a UIView (superview)