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Lukáš Orgován
1,924 PointsLoading Indicator iOS
Hi guys, I need your help :)
I am creating an iOS application (a port of news published on web) with several views and segues. The first view is sort of a "select what you want" view. It has 2 options now (1. load xml content from web displayed in collection view, 2. load twitter feed). Users can acces both by clicking on a button. The segue works fine, but when I hit a "load news" button, it takes a while to load content (user can see only button pressed (blue state) and the view is shown in few seconds with content loaded. Is there any way to load view immidiatly with blank screen and only show loading indicator while the data from xml parser are parsed and displayed?). If so, how? (p.s. I am total newbie, be patient please :))
3 Answers
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou need to use Grand Central Dispatch so that you can run your data loading in a separate thread. Here's a great tutorial: http://www.raywenderlich.com/4295/multithreading-and-grand-central-dispatch-on-ios-for-beginners-tutorial
Lukáš Orgován
1,924 PointsThank you, Amit, I solved it two hours later with tutorial on NSURL Connection. Is there any particular advantage to use ASIHTTPRequest?
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherLots of advantages in using ASIHTTPRequest like synchronous & asynchronous requests, caching, authentication, etc. It's a feature rich library that adds everything needed for an app that involves a lot of networking. Personally I prefer AFNetworking.