In my Project, each of the user interaction events make a network call (Which is TCP, not HTTP). I need Activity Indicator to be global to show from a rando
as with many iOS issues, this is now drastically, totally out of date.
These days you certainly just use a trivial
for any issue like this.
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MBProgressHUD was a miraculous solution back in the day, because there was a "drastic hole" in Apple's pipeline.
But (as with many wonderful things from the past), this is only history now. Don't do anything like this today.
Just FWIW, 2014, here's a very simple setup we use. Per David Lawson...
UIWindow *window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate].window
as Matej says, just use AppDelegate...
#define APP ((AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate])
AppDelegate.h
// our convenient huddie system (messages with a hud, spinner)
@property (nonatomic, strong) MBProgressHUD *hud;
-(void)huddie;
AppDelegate.m
-(void)huddie
{
// centralised location for MBProgressHUD
[self.hud hide:YES];
UIWindow *windowForHud = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate].window;
self.hud = [MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:windowForHud animated:YES];
self.hud.dimBackground = YES;
self.hud.minShowTime = 0.1;
self.hud.labelText = @"";
self.hud.detailsLabelText = @"";
}
Set the titles in your code where you are using it - because you very often change them during a run. ("Step 1" ... "Step 2" etc)
-(void)loadBlahFromCloud
{
[APP huddie];
APP.hud.labelText = @"Connecting to Parse...";
APP.hud.detailsLabelText = @"step 1/2";
[blah refreshFromCloudThen:
^{
[... example];
}];
}
-(void)example
{
APP.hud.labelText = @"Connecting to the bank...";
APP.hud.detailsLabelText = @"step 2/2";
[blah sendDetailsThen:
^{
[APP.hud hide:YES];
[... showNewDisplay];
}];
}
Change huddle to take the texts as an argument if you wish
You always want self.hud.minShowTime = 0.1; to avoid flicker
Almost always self.hud.dimBackground = YES; which also blocks UI
Conceptually of course you usually have to "slightly wait" to begin work / end work when you bring up such a process, as with any similar programming with the UI.
So in practice code will usually look like this...
-(void)loadActionSheets
{
[APP huddie];
APP.hud.labelText = @"Loading json from net...";
dispatch_after_secs_on_main(0.1 ,
^{
[STUBS refreshNowFromCloudThen:
^{
[APP.hud hide:YES];
dispatch_after_secs_on_main(0.1 , ^{ [self buildActionsheet]; });
}];
}
);
}
Handy macro ..
#define dispatch_after_secs_on_main( SS, BB ) \
dispatch_after( \
dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, SS*NSEC_PER_SEC), \
dispatch_get_main_queue(), \
BB \
)
This is all history now :) https://stackoverflow.com/a/23403979/294884
To show the one MBProgressHUD
at one time, you can check weather HUD is already added in same view or not. If not, then add the HUD otherwise do not add new HUD.
-(void)showLoader{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
BOOL isHudAlreadyAdded = false;
UIWindow *window = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] lastObject];
NSEnumerator *subviewsEnum = [window.subviews reverseObjectEnumerator];
for (UIView *subview in subviewsEnum) {
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[MBProgressHUD class]]) {
isHudAlreadyAdded = true;
}
}
if(isHudAlreadyAdded == false){
[MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:window animated:YES];
}
});
}
-(void)hideLoader{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
UIWindow *window = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] lastObject];
[MBProgressHUD hideHUDForView:window animated:YES];
});
}
Add these two methods to show or hide loader in your singleton class
- (void)startLoaderWithText:(NSString *)title View:(UIView *)view{
progressHud = [MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:view animated:YES];
progressHud.labelText = title;
progressHud.activityIndicatorColor = [UIColor grayColor];
progressHud.color = [UIColor clearColor];
[progressHud show:YES];
}
- (void)stopLoader{
[progressHud hide:YES];
}