How to use activity indicator view on iPhone?

Question

An activity indicator view is useful in many applications. Any ideas about how to add, activiate and dismiss an activity indicator view on iPhone?

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Answer 1

Take a look at the open source WordPress application. They have a very re-usable window they have created for displaying an "activity in progress" type display over top of whatever view your application is currently displaying.

http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

The files you want are:

• WPActivityIndicator.xib
• RoundedRectBlack.png
• WPActivityIndicator.h
• WPActivityIndicator.m

Then to show it use something like:

[[WPActivityIndicator sharedActivityIndicator] show];

And hide with:

[[WPActivityIndicator sharedActivityIndicator] hide];