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Posted by Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

implementing a loading view while getting tableView data

Does anyone know how you would go about implementing a loading view (spinning circle type thing) while the tableView is being populated with data?

2 Answers

Rashii Henry
Rashii Henry
16,433 Points

You can use that suggestion or either:

create a new property of UIRefreshControl in your header file.

switch to your implementation then alloc and initialize the property you created. self.refreshControl = [UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; //this will automatically create the spinning circle. so if you run the program it will work but continue to spin.

make sure after you allocate and initialize the UIRefreshControl you use: [self.refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(whateverActionYouWillUse) forControlEvent:UIControlEventValueChanged];

then to get the circle to disappear whenever you finish retrieving something you can do something like: if ([self.resfreshControl isRefreshing]) {self.refreshControl endRefreshing};

just a suggestion.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

thanks for the suggestion. I actually followed this tutorial to make a more customizable loading indicator.

Rashii Henry
Rashii Henry
16,433 Points

I appreciate it.

I've actually been looking for one so i'll take a look at it now.

John W
John W
21,558 Points
John W
John W
21,558 Points

You can imitate pull-to-refresh by

[self.refreshControl beginRefreshing];
self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0,-100);

Then when you are done:

[self.refreshControl endRefreshing];
self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0,0);
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

awesome ill try this out