Show activity indicator in SDWebImage

Question

I\'m using SDWebView image and i want to show an Activity Indicator as placeholder, while fetching the image from remote.

I tried Malek\'s answer here How to show an act

Answer 1

I believe with the latest version of sdwebimage this is a better method.

[self.customImageView setImageWithURL:imageURL
                             placeholderImage:nil
                                      options:nil
                                     progress:^(NSUInteger receivedSize, long long expectedSize) { [self.activityIndicator startAnimating]; }
                                    completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType) { [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating]; }];

Note: If you don't have a property setup obviously self.activityindicator won't work.

I would use Michael Frederick's example to create the activityindicator instead.

Answer 2

That's my solution. In that file : UIImageView+WebCache.m

Find that method and change like that:

- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder
{
    UIActivityIndicatorView *activity = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray)];
    [activity startAnimating];
    [activity setFrame:CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x - 20, self.frame.origin.y - 10, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];
    [self addSubview:activity];

    //[self setImageWithURL:url placeholderImage:placeholder options:0 progress:nil completed:nil];

    [self setImageWithURL:url
         placeholderImage:placeholder
                  options:0
                completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType)
     {
             [activity removeFromSuperview];
     }];
}

Answer 3

The above code is slightly wrong. The line 'activityIndicator.center = imageView.center' does not give you the correct coordinates to center the progress view. For me, it was showing the indicator below the cell.

Note - I am using the latest version of the SDWebImage code so the method is slightly different. I am also using a UIButton for the imageView

Try this:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"www.someimageurl.com"];
__block UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
activityIndicator.frame = cell.imageView.bounds;
[cell.imageView addSubview:activityIndicator];
[activityIndicator startAnimating];
[cell.imageView setImageWithURL:url forState:UIControlStateNormal completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType) {
    [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview];
}];

Answer 4

Another solution is to use an animated image as the placeholder image by using:

[UIImage animatedImageNamed:@"animated_placeholder" duration:1]

Answer 5

This fork has support for this functionality. Take a look at the diff.

But, in general, you can do it rather easily without using that fork:

__block UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:activityStyle];
activityIndicator.center = imageView.center;
activityIndicator.hidesWhenStopped = YES;
[imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.domain.com/path/to/image.jpg"]
               placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.png"]
                        success:^(UIImage *image) { [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }
                        failure:^(NSError *error) { [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }];

[imageView addSubview:activityIndicator];
[activityIndicator startAnimating];

Answer 6

My list is quite lag when the user scrolling the list up and down repeatedly. I found out that the activityindicator had been added infinitely when the cellForItemAtIndexPath is being repeatedly called.

To solve this, add a tag at your activityindicator:

activityIndicator.tag = 9999;

Before the UIActivityIndicator is being created, add these lines to remove the previous activityindicator before adding the new one:

UIView* toDeleteLoader = [cell viewWithTag:9999];
if(toDeleteLoader != nil){
    [toDeleteLoader removeFromSuperview];
}

Note: tag content can be any numbers that it won't be used in your cell.