I'm trying to display an Activity Indicator View in my app to users while a url is being loaded into a WebView. I've tried toying with activity.startAnimating/activity.stopAnimating and tried placing them in functions, etc. but have not had any luck.
The best I have been able to get is the Activity Indicator to appear and animate, but then not stop animating or hide once my url is loaded, so it continues spinning on top of the web page.
In other situations, when trying to move around activity.startAnimating, I have encountered the "Thread 1: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)" issue. I have "Hides when Stopped" checked in the attributes inspector, I know that my url is valid, and I have created IBOutlets for the Interface Builder Elements.
Bear with me; I'm relatively new to Swift. Here's my code:
class HighchartsController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var HighchartsView: UIWebView!
@IBOutlet weak var activity: UIActivityIndicatorView!
@IBOutlet weak var saveButton: UIBarButtonItem!
@IBOutlet weak var highchartsMenu: UIBarButtonItem!
override func viewDidLoad()
{
super.viewDidLoad()
if self.revealViewController() != nil {
highchartsMenu.target = self.revealViewController()
highchartsMenu.action = "revealToggle:"
loadAddress()
}
}
func loadAddress() {
let url = NSURL (string: "http://google.com/flights")
let request = NSURLRequest (URL: url!)
HighchartsView.loadRequest(request)
println("Webpage Loaded Successfully")
}
}
And I have tried using different functions such as
webViewDidStartLoad(_ :UIWebView){
activity.startAnimating()
NSLog("Webview load has started")
}
webViewDidFinishLoad(_ :UIWebView){
activity.stopAnimating()
NSLog("Webview load had finished")
}
First of all, i don't see delegation of UIWebView.
Realize your behaviour related to delegation processes.
UIWebViewDelegate has four methods, but use for this way just three:
Swift 4
func webViewDidStartLoad(_ webView: UIWebView) // show indicator
func webViewDidFinishLoad(_ webView: UIWebView) // hide indicator
func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, didFailLoadWithError error: Error) // hide indicator
Swift 3
func webViewDidStartLoad(webView: UIWebView!) // show indicator
func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView: UIWebView!) // hide indicator
func webView(webView: UIWebView!, didFailLoadWithError error: NSError!) // hide indicator
You need to add UIWebViewDelegate to your class like so.
class HighchartsController: UIViewController, UIWebViewDelegate {
You will also need to assign your webView delegate to self in viewDidLoad function like so.
HighchartsView.delegate = self
I'm sure you figured it out by now but you need to wire up your UIWebView
to set its delegate as your UIViewController
in the storyboard by control-dragging.
The following are three simple steps that I always follow in Xcode 8 / Swift 3 / iOS 10 in order to implement UIWebView
page loading indicator:
Step 1. Create outlets for the Web View and Load Indicator in the ViewController
class. For example:
@IBOutlet var loadSpinner: UIActivityIndicatorView!
@IBOutlet weak var webView: UIWebView!
These two lines should have non-empty dots to the left of them.
Step 2. In the Storyboard: Control-drag the WebView to the ViewController and choose "delegate" from the menu. As GarySabo correctly pointed out, without this step, the indicator will appear but won't work!
Step 3. Add the following code to your ViewController
class:
func webViewDidStartLoad(_ : UIWebView) {
loadSpinner.startAnimating()
}
func webViewDidFinishLoad(_ : UIWebView) {
loadSpinner.stopAnimating()
}
*WKWebView equivalent of dimpiax answer. Use WKNavigationDelegate
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didStartProvisionalNavigation navigation: WKNavigation!) // show indicator
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) // hide indicator
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFail navigation: WKNavigation!, withError error: Error) // hide indicator*