Ionic 4: “Loading Controller” dismiss() is called before present() which will keep spinner without dismissing

Question

I used \"Ionic Loading Controller\" to show a spinner until the data is retrieved then it calls \"dismiss()\" to dismissed it. it works fine, but sometimes when the app alre

Answer 1

After trying everything, here's what I finally came up with. Seems to be working well so far.

Trying to make use of setInterval with a 500ms interval. I also tried to keep the function non-async so that it may be easily used in the consuming end.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { LoadingController } from '@ionic/angular';

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class UiService {
    constructor(private loading: LoadingController) { }

    private loader: HTMLIonLoadingElement;
    private loaderLoading = false;

    public showLoading(message: string) {
        this.loaderLoading = true;
        this.loading.create({
            message,
            showBackdrop: true
        }).then(load => {
            this.loader = load;
            load.present().then(() => { this.loaderLoading = false; });
        });
    }

    public dismissLoading() {
        const interval = setInterval(() => {
            if (this.loader || !this.loaderLoading) {
                this.loader.dismiss().then(() => { this.loader = null; clearInterval(interval)});
            } else if (!this.loader && !this.loaderLoading) {
                clearInterval(interval);
            }
        }, 500);
    }
}