How to show activity indicator while tableView loads?

Question

When I switch between my tabs it loads some seconds and I want to know that my data is loading. For that I decided to add an activity indicator.

I wrote a little functio

Answer 1

I use two extension methods to add an UIActivityIndicatorView as the backgroundView of the tableview.

extension UITableView {
    func showActivityIndicator() {
        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            let activityView = UIActivityIndicatorView(style: .medium)
            self.backgroundView = activityView
            activityView.startAnimating()
        }
    }

    func hideActivityIndicator() {
        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            self.backgroundView = nil
        }
    }
}

You can show/hide it like this.

tableView.showActivityIndicator()
tableView.hideActivityIndicator()