Any way to know before html content was shown in UIWebView - ios

Is any possible ways that I would like to know before html content was shown in uiwebview.
coz when I called to some url, It will take a few seconds to complete the whole page loading. Before loading was completed, some of the content was already shown. I would like to know before that content was shown or before start showing.

UIWebView has a delegate protocol called UIWebViewDelegate. Two methods you should implement are – webViewDidStartLoad: notify monitoring object of when a site will about to load and – webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest: notify when there a certain request like click, submit, back/forward etc are being made

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Xcode Display a loading view until the second view loads (on a segue show)

I have an app that switch views using a segue when a button is clicked.
The second view loads data from the internet and it can take a couple of seconds.
I would like to know how can i display a loading view/splash screen in the meantime so the view could finish the loading and the app wont appear like it's doing nothing.
Thanks!
Check this library SwiftSpinner. It serves the purpose of your needs. It's really brilliant.
Call the necessary function from the library in the viewDidLoad method of your ViewController which loads the data from the internet. Remove this view in DidFinishLoading method of the NSURLProtocol (It's an optional func declared in that class which detects when the request to that URL is complete). The documentation is given in that library itself.
Sounds like you're looking for an activity indicator. I've used the custom class posted https://stackoverflow.com/a/32661590/3516923 with success. Just a note of warning, in his class he blocks all input while the indicator is in view. If you want to make it so your users can back out before things finish you need to remove UIApplication.sharedApplication().beginIgnoringInteractionEvents() and UIApplication.sharedApplication().endIgnoringInteractionEvents() from the start and stop animating functions.
If what you want is really a splash screen, have a UIImageView underneath the view that you're loading. Set the image to your splash screen image. Set the loading view to hidden=YES before it's shown, then set hidden to NO after it finishes loading. You could even set the opacity of the frontmost view to give you a fading effect.
1.You need to find a kind of indicator, suck like an activity indicator or something else to show the loading UI to the user.
2.Set the user interaction unable, so that the user won`t touchup inside repeatedly.
3.Start the indicator, set the user interaction unable when you load the server data, and stop the indicator animation when you finish, hide the indicator, enabled the user interaction.

Block until UIView loads text?

I have a UIView with paging enabled.
I automaticly scroll to the next page:
[myView scrollToNextPage]
Now here I want the code to block until the next page is finished loading. scrollToNextPage calls a delegate method and I want to wait for it to finish before I keep going.
I'm not sure I want to use notifications because I don't want a notification every time the page is turned, just when I turn the page programaticly.
Thanks!

UIWebView in IOS (Xamarin monotuch)

I am sure that this has been asked before but i am unable to get to a solution.
I have a UIWebView which is wrapped inside a UIView.
The web view loads HTML - Tapping on the HTML link results in certain action (Done. Detect the click in ShouldStartLoad and act accordingly).
Tapping anywhere else other than a link should result in another action - This is where i am having an issue. Just cant seem to get the tap gesture to work (on the UIWebView or the wrapper UIView)
Any clues?
Regards
Sid
Adding tap gesture recognizers is not an easy task due to the way it works internally (UIKit view hierarchy and WebKit view hierarchy).
I would suggest a much simpler solution. Add Hammer.js to your HTML (or inject it in webViewDidFinishLoad:), and on tap events, send a fake load request and catch like with links.
Hammer(el).on("tap", function() {
//Send fake request here.
});

How can I close UIWebView after submitting form in the view?

I have a UIWebView that displays a webpage including a feedback form. I want to remove this UIWebView after I submit the form in that view.
How can I do that?
You normally achieve this sort of thing by setting a delegate on the web view, to register for interesting callbacks.
Don't forget to nil the delegate before you dispose of the web view or you might experience a crash.
In the delegate for the UIWebView, within
webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:
search for a the url triggered by the form submission. If it's present, set a flag value.
Then, in your delegate's webViewDidFinishLoad: method, if the flag is set, remove the webView.
Well You Have not made clear of your allocation of your webview or not familiar with your code .I guess you want to return to previous view from the UIWebView , in that case you can simply the push the viewcontroller containing the webview through a UINavigationController and get back to the view on back button or set a flag in webviewDidStartLoad and webViewDidFinishLoad and remove the view when the flag is set in DidFinish Part else please elaborate your problem.

UIViewController viewDidLoad vs. viewWillAppear: What is the proper division of labor?

I have always been a bit unclear on the type of tasks that should be assigned to viewDidLoad vs. viewWillAppear: in a UIViewController subclass.
e.g. I am doing an app where I have a UIViewController subclass hitting a server, getting data, feeding it to a view and then displaying that view. What are the pros and cons of doing this in viewDidLoad vs. viewWillAppear?
viewDidLoad is things you have to do once. viewWillAppear gets called every time the view appears. You should do things that you only have to do once in viewDidLoad - like setting your UILabel texts. However, you may want to modify a specific part of the view every time the user gets to view it, e.g. the iPod application scrolls the lyrics back to the top every time you go to the "Now Playing" view.
However, when you are loading things from a server, you also have to think about latency. If you pack all of your network communication into viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear, they will be executed before the user gets to see the view - possibly resulting a short freeze of your app. It may be good idea to first show the user an unpopulated view with an activity indicator of some sort. When you are done with your networking, which may take a second or two (or may even fail - who knows?), you can populate the view with your data. Good examples on how this could be done can be seen in various twitter clients. For example, when you view the author detail page in Twitterrific, the view only says "Loading..." until the network queries have completed.
It's important to note that using viewDidLoad for positioning is a bit risky and should be avoided since the bounds are not set. this may cause unexpected results (I had a variety of issues...)
This post describes quite well the different methods and what happens in each of them.
currently for one-time init and positioning I'm thinking of using viewDidAppear with a flag, if anyone has any other recommendation please let me know.
Initially used only ViewDidLoad with tableView. On testing with loss of Wifi, by setting device to airplane mode, realized that the table did not refresh with return of Wifi. In fact, there appears to be no way to refresh tableView on the device even by hitting the home button with background mode set to YES in -Info.plist.
My solution:
-(void) viewWillAppear: (BOOL) animated { [self.tableView reloadData];}
Depends, Do you need the data to be loaded each time you open the view? or only once?
Red : They don't require to change every time. Once they are loaded they stay as how they were.
Purple: They need to change over time or after you load each time. You don't want to see the same 3 suggested users to follow, it needs to be reloaded every time you come back to the screen. Their photos may get updated... you don't want to see a photo from 5 years ago...
viewDidLoad: Whatever processing you have that needs to be done once.
viewWilLAppear: Whatever processing that needs to change every time the page is loaded.
Labels, icons, button titles or most dataInputedByDeveloper usually don't change.
Names, photos, links, button status, lists (input Arrays for your tableViews or collectionView) or most dataInputedByUser usually do change.

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