Activity indicator in SwiftUI

Question

Trying to add a full screen activity indicator in SwiftUI.

I can use .overlay(overlay: ) function in View Protocol.

With this, I c

Answer 1

iOS 14 - Native

it's just a simple view.

ProgressView()

Currently, it's defaulted to CircularProgressViewStyle but you can manually set the style of it by adding the following modifer:

.progressViewStyle(CircularProgressViewStyle())

Also, the style could be anything that conforms to ProgressViewStyle

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iOS 13 - Fully customizable Standard UIActivityIndicator in SwiftUI: (Exactly as a native View):

You can build and configure it (as much as you could in the original UIKit):

ActivityIndicator(isAnimating: loading)
    .configure { $0.color = .yellow } // Optional configurations (                                                                    

                                                        
            

Answer 2

As of Xcode 12 beta (iOS 14), a new view called ProgressView is available to developers, and that can display both determinate and indeterminate progress.

Its style defaults to CircularProgressViewStyle, which is exactly what we're looking for.

var body: some View {
    VStack {
        ProgressView()
           // and if you want to be explicit / future-proof...
           // .progressViewStyle(CircularProgressViewStyle())
    }
}

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Xcode 11.x

Quite a few views are not yet represented in SwiftUI, but it's easily to port them into the system. You need to wrap UIActivityIndicator and make it UIViewRepresentable.

(More about this can be found in the excellent WWDC 2019 talk - Integrating SwiftUI)

struct ActivityIndicator: UIViewRepresentable {

    @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
    let style: UIActivityIndicatorView.Style

    func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<ActivityIndicator>) -> UIActivityIndicatorView {
        return UIActivityIndicatorView(style: style)
    }

    func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIActivityIndicatorView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<ActivityIndicator>) {
        isAnimating ? uiView.startAnimating() : uiView.stopAnimating()
    }
}

Then you can use it as follows - here's an example of a loading overlay.

Note: I prefer using ZStack, rather than overlay(:_), so I know exactly what's going on in my implementation.

struct LoadingView<Content>: View where Content: View {

    @Binding var isShowing: Bool
    var content: () -> Content

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            ZStack(alignment: .center) {

                self.content()
                    .disabled(self.isShowing)
                    .blur(radius: self.isShowing ? 3 : 0)

                VStack {
                    Text("Loading...")
                    ActivityIndicator(isAnimating: .constant(true), style: .large)
                }
                .frame(width: geometry.size.width / 2,
                       height: geometry.size.height / 5)
                .background(Color.secondary.colorInvert())
                .foregroundColor(Color.primary)
                .cornerRadius(20)
                .opacity(self.isShowing ? 1 : 0)

            }
        }
    }

}

To test it, you can use this example code:

struct ContentView: View {

    var body: some View {
        LoadingView(isShowing: .constant(true)) {
            NavigationView {
                List(["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"], id: \.self) { row in
                    Text(row)
                }.navigationBarTitle(Text("A List"), displayMode: .large)
            }
        }
    }

}

Result:

Answer 3

// Activity View

struct ActivityIndicator: UIViewRepresentable {

    let style: UIActivityIndicatorView.Style
    @Binding var animate: Bool

    private let spinner: UIActivityIndicatorView = {
        $0.hidesWhenStopped = true
        return $0
    }(UIActivityIndicatorView(style: .medium))

    func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<ActivityIndicator>) -> UIActivityIndicatorView {
        spinner.style = style
        return spinner
    }

    func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIActivityIndicatorView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<ActivityIndicator>) {
        animate ? uiView.startAnimating() : uiView.stopAnimating()
    }

    func configure(_ indicator: (UIActivityIndicatorView) -> Void) -> some View {
        indicator(spinner)
        return self
    }   
}

// Usage
struct ContentView: View {

    @State var animate = false

    var body: some View {
            ActivityIndicator(style: .large, animate: $animate)
                .configure {
                    $0.color = .red
            }
            .background(Color.blue)
    }
}

Answer 4

In addition to Mojatba Hosseini's answer,

I've made a few updates so that this can be put in a swift package:

Activity indicator:

import Foundation
import SwiftUI
import UIKit

public struct ActivityIndicator: UIViewRepresentable {

  public typealias UIView = UIActivityIndicatorView
  public var isAnimating: Bool = true
  public var configuration = { (indicator: UIView) in }

 public init(isAnimating: Bool, configuration: ((UIView) -> Void)? = nil) {
    self.isAnimating = isAnimating
    if let configuration = configuration {
        self.configuration = configuration
    }
 }

 public func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<Self>) -> UIView {
    UIView()
 }

 public func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: 
    UIViewRepresentableContext<Self>) {
     isAnimating ? uiView.startAnimating() : uiView.stopAnimating()
     configuration(uiView)
}}

Extension:

public extension View where Self == ActivityIndicator {
func configure(_ configuration: @escaping (Self.UIView) -> Void) -> Self {
    Self.init(isAnimating: self.isAnimating, configuration: configuration)
 }
}

Answer 5

Custom Indicators

Although Apple supports native Activity Indicator now from the SwiftUI 2.0, You can Simply implement your own animations. These are all supported on SwiftUI 1.0. Also it is working in widgets.

Arcs

struct Arcs: View {
    @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
    let count: UInt
    let width: CGFloat
    let spacing: CGFloat

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            ForEach(0..<Int(count)) { index in
                item(forIndex: index, in: geometry.size)
                    .rotationEffect(isAnimating ? .degrees(360) : .degrees(0))
                    .animation(
                        Animation.default
                            .speed(Double.random(in: 0.2...0.5))
                            .repeatCount(isAnimating ? .max : 1, autoreverses: false)
                    )
            }
        }
        .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
    }

    private func item(forIndex index: Int, in geometrySize: CGSize) -> some View {
        Group { () -> Path in
            var p = Path()
            p.addArc(center: CGPoint(x: geometrySize.width/2, y: geometrySize.height/2),
                     radius: geometrySize.width/2 - width/2 - CGFloat(index) * (width + spacing),
                     startAngle: .degrees(0),
                     endAngle: .degrees(Double(Int.random(in: 120...300))),
                     clockwise: true)
            return p.strokedPath(.init(lineWidth: width))
        }
        .frame(width: geometrySize.width, height: geometrySize.height)
    }
}

_{Demo of different variations}

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Bars

struct Bars: View {
    @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
    let count: UInt
    let spacing: CGFloat
    let cornerRadius: CGFloat
    let scaleRange: ClosedRange<Double>
    let opacityRange: ClosedRange<Double>

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            ForEach(0..<Int(count)) { index in
                item(forIndex: index, in: geometry.size)
            }
        }
        .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
    }

    private var scale: CGFloat { CGFloat(isAnimating ? scaleRange.lowerBound : scaleRange.upperBound) }
    private var opacity: Double { isAnimating ? opacityRange.lowerBound : opacityRange.upperBound }

    private func size(count: UInt, geometry: CGSize) -> CGFloat {
        (geometry.width/CGFloat(count)) - (spacing-2)
    }

    private func item(forIndex index: Int, in geometrySize: CGSize) -> some View {
        RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: cornerRadius,  style: .continuous)
            .frame(width: size(count: count, geometry: geometrySize), height: geometrySize.height)
            .scaleEffect(x: 1, y: scale, anchor: .center)
            .opacity(opacity)
            .animation(
                Animation
                    .default
                    .repeatCount(isAnimating ? .max : 1, autoreverses: true)
                    .delay(Double(index) / Double(count) / 2)
            )
            .offset(x: CGFloat(index) * (size(count: count, geometry: geometrySize) + spacing))
    }
}

_{Demo of different variations}

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Blinkers

struct Blinking: View {
    @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
    let count: UInt
    let size: CGFloat

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            ForEach(0..<Int(count)) { index in
                item(forIndex: index, in: geometry.size)
                    .frame(width: geometry.size.width, height: geometry.size.height)

            }
        }
        .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
    }

    private func item(forIndex index: Int, in geometrySize: CGSize) -> some View {
        let angle = 2 * CGFloat.pi / CGFloat(count) * CGFloat(index)
        let x = (geometrySize.width/2 - size/2) * cos(angle)
        let y = (geometrySize.height/2 - size/2) * sin(angle)
        return Circle()
            .frame(width: size, height: size)
            .scaleEffect(isAnimating ? 0.5 : 1)
            .opacity(isAnimating ? 0.25 : 1)
            .animation(
                Animation
                    .default
                    .repeatCount(isAnimating ? .max : 1, autoreverses: true)
                    .delay(Double(index) / Double(count) / 2)
            )
            .offset(x: x, y: y)
    }
}

_{Demo of different variations}

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For the sake of preventing walls of code, you can find more elegant indicators in this repo hosted on the git.

_{Note that all these animations have a Binding that MUST toggle to be run.}

Answer 6

If you want to a swift-ui-style solution, then this is the magic:

import SwiftUI

struct ActivityIndicator: View {

  @State private var isAnimating: Bool = false

  var body: some View {
    GeometryReader { (geometry: GeometryProxy) in
      ForEach(0..<5) { index in
        Group {
          Circle()
            .frame(width: geometry.size.width / 5, height: geometry.size.height / 5)
            .scaleEffect(!self.isAnimating ? 1 - CGFloat(index) / 5 : 0.2 + CGFloat(index) / 5)
            .offset(y: geometry.size.width / 10 - geometry.size.height / 2)
          }.frame(width: geometry.size.width, height: geometry.size.height)
            .rotationEffect(!self.isAnimating ? .degrees(0) : .degrees(360))
            .animation(Animation
              .timingCurve(0.5, 0.15 + Double(index) / 5, 0.25, 1, duration: 1.5)
              .repeatForever(autoreverses: false))
        }
      }
    .aspectRatio(1, contentMode: .fit)
    .onAppear {
        self.isAnimating = true
    }
  }
}

Simply to use:

ActivityIndicator()
.frame(width: 50, height: 50)

Hope it helps!

Example Usage:

ActivityIndicator()
.frame(size: CGSize(width: 200, height: 200))
    .foregroundColor(.orange)