Objective-C: Asynchronously populate UITableView - how to do this?

Question

I can\'t seem to find any info on this question, so I thought I\'d ask the community.

Basically, I have a UITableView and I want to show an activity indicator while

Answer 1

This is the problem

request setCompletionBlock:^{
        self.listData = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"Red", @"Green", @"Blue", @"Indigo", @"Violet", nil];   //this doesn't work...
        [table performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(reloadTable) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];    
    }];

The reload table needs to be done on the main thread.