Add an activity indicator on a uiwebview

Question

I have a viewDidLoad which creates a web view and starts an activity indicator. How do I make the activity indicator stop only when the web page appears? How do I add words to the activity indicator like "Loading"?

// Create the UIWebView
UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];

[self.view addSubview:webView];

// Start the throbber to check if the user exists
UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView=[[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
activityView.center = CGPointMake([self screenWidth] / 2.0, 370.0);
[activityView startAnimating];
activityView.tag = 100;
[self.view addSubview:activityView];

NSString* url = @"http://google.com";
NSURL* nsUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSURLRequest* request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:nsUrl cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData timeoutInterval:30];


// Remove activity view
UIView *viewToRemove = [self.view viewWithTag:100];
//[viewToRemove removeFromSuperview];

[webView loadRequest:request];

Answer 1

Make a loading View:

@implementation yourViewController{;
    UIView* loadingView;
}

In your viewDidLoad:

loadingView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 400, 80, 80)];
loadingView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0. alpha:0.6];
loadingView.layer.cornerRadius = 5;

UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView=[[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge];
activityView.center = CGPointMake(loadingView.frame.size.width / 2.0, 35);
[activityView startAnimating];
activityView.tag = 100;
[loadingView addSubview:activityView];

UILabel* lblLoading = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 48, 80, 30)];
lblLoading.text = @"Loading...";
lblLoading.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
lblLoading.font = [UIFont fontWithName:lblLoading.font.fontName size:15];
lblLoading.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
[loadingView addSubview:lblLoading];

[self.view addSubview:loadingView];

This view will look like this:

Be careful, if you want to use the cornerRadius, you have to import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> framework, and of corse before import, add QuartzCore framework to your project !

Detect when webview stop loading:

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
    [loadingView setHidden:YES];
}

you have to implement UIWebViewDelegate protocol, and

webView.delegate = self;

and make it visible:

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {

 [loadingView setHidden:NO];

}