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

@brocolli's answer for swift 4.0. You have to use objc_ before getting or setting associated objects. According to the documentation, The APIs of getting and setting the associated object in Swift are:

func objc_getAssociatedObject(object: AnyObject!,
                                 key: UnsafePointer
                             )  -> AnyObject!

func objc_setAssociatedObject(object: AnyObject!,
                                 key: UnsafePointer,
                               value: AnyObject!,
                              policy: objc_AssociationPolicy)

Implementation:

import UIKit

fileprivate var ActivityIndicatorViewAssociativeKey = "ActivityIndicatorViewAssociativeKey"

extension UIView {
    var activityIndicatorView: UIActivityIndicatorView {
        get {
            if let activityIndicatorView = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &ActivityIndicatorViewAssociativeKey) as? UIActivityIndicatorView {
                return activityIndicatorView
            } else {
                let activityIndicatorView = UIActivityIndicatorView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 40, height: 40))
                activityIndicatorView.activityIndicatorViewStyle = .gray
                activityIndicatorView.color = .gray
                activityIndicatorView.center = center
                activityIndicatorView.hidesWhenStopped = true
                addSubview(activityIndicatorView)

                objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &ActivityIndicatorViewAssociativeKey, activityIndicatorView, .OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC)
                return activityIndicatorView
            }
        }

        set {
            addSubview(newValue)
            objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &ActivityIndicatorViewAssociativeKey, newValue, .OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC)
        }

    }
}