Adding activity indicator while AVplayer gets ready to play music - ios

Question

I developed an app for radio and it's working.
I want to put an activity indicator view so that when you touch the play it starts the activity indicator view and when the audio starts, the activity indicator stops.

Answer 1

This will add the activity view to the center of the view. Add this code in the "IBAction" where u handle the play button.
UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView=[[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge];
activityView.center=self.view.center;
[activityView startAnimating];
[self.view addSubview:activityView];
[self.view userInteractionEnabled:NO]; //to avoid touch events when activity is on
And to stop the activity indicator use
[activityView stopAnimating];
[activityView removeFromSuperview];
[self.view userInteractionEnabled:YES];
This is from this link about AV Foundation. and this answer ->
Using KVO, it's possible to be notified for changes of the player status:
player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL];
[player addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"status" options:0 context:nil];
In the PLAY button's event add the code to start the UIActivityIndicator
This method will be called when the status changes:
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object
change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
if (object == player && [keyPath isEqualToString:#"status"]) {
if (player.status == AVPlayerStatusReadyToPlay) {
//DISABLE THE UIACTIVITY INDICATOR HERE
} else if (player.status == AVPlayerStatusFailed) {
// something went wrong. player.error should contain some information
}
}
}