UIActivityIndicatorView dialog over view - ios

Question

In my app I'm using a custom UIActivityIndicator view (this) and it works great.
I have an UITableView and I want the indicator over the tableview on loading data. To solve the problem I have created an empty view with a background above all and when I need to start indicator's animation I simply hide tableview and show the empty view + the indicator.
The result is this:
I saw somewhere that I can use instead something like this:
How can I do?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could try adding a translucent Black view over the Table View and put the custom activity indicator code as a subview in the Black view.
let aBlackView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.width, self.view.bounds.height))
aBlackView.backgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
aBlackView.alpha = 0.75 // Change the alpha depending on how much transparency you require
let aMainWindow = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate!.window
aMainWindow!!.addSubview(aBlackView)
/* Enter you code for NVActivityIndicatorViewable here */
aBlackView.addSubview(/* NVActivityIndicatorViewable */)
Once you are done with your request, you can remove the Black view by calling this code:
aBlackView.removeFromSuperview()

Answer 2

I created a activity showing screen . I used in every where in my project.
//ProgressBarNotification.swift
import Foundation
import UIKit
class ProgressBarNotification {
internal static var strLabel = UILabel()
internal static var messageFrame = UIView()
internal static var activityIndicator = UIActivityIndicatorView()
internal static func progressBarDisplayer(msg:String,indicator:Bool ){
let view1 = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window!!.rootViewController?.view
view1?.userInteractionEnabled = false
strLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 0, width: 200, height: 50))
strLabel.text = msg
strLabel.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
messageFrame = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: view1!.frame.midX - 90, y: view1!.frame.midY - 25 , width: 180, height: 50))
messageFrame.layer.cornerRadius = 15
messageFrame.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 0, alpha: 0.7)
if indicator {
activityIndicator = UIActivityIndicatorView(activityIndicatorStyle: UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle.White)
activityIndicator.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 50, height: 50)
activityIndicator.startAnimating()
messageFrame.addSubview(activityIndicator)
}
messageFrame.addSubview(strLabel)
view1!.addSubview(messageFrame)
}
internal static func removeProgressBar() {
let view1 = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window!!.rootViewController?.view
_ = view1?.subviews.filter({ (view) -> Bool in
if view == ProgressBarNotification.messageFrame {
view.removeFromSuperview()
}
return false
})
ProgressBarNotification.messageFrame.removeFromSuperview()
view1?.userInteractionEnabled = true
}
deinit{
}
}
Usage
//To start Loader
ProgressBarNotification.progressBarDisplayer("Loading", indicator: true)
//Stop
ProgressBarNotification.removeProgressBar()