How to use UIProgressView while loading of a UIWebView?

Question

i am developing an application where i am loading a urlrequest in the UIWebView and it happened successfully.

But now i am trying to display a UIProgressView when the loading is in progress( starting from 0.0 to 1.0), which is changed dynamically with the progress of loading.

How can i do that?

Answer 1

UIWebView doesn't give you any progress information in the normal mode. What you need to do is first fetch your data asynchronously using an NSURLConnection. When the NSURLConnection delegate method connection:didReceiveResponse, you're going to take the number you get from expectedContentLength and use that as your max value. Then, inside the delegate method connection:didReceiveData, you're going to use the length property of the NSData instance to tell you how far along you are, so your progress fraction will be length / maxLength , normalized to between 0.0 and 1.0.

Finally, you're going to init the webview with data instead of a URL (in your connection:didFinishLoading delegate method).

Two caveats:

1. It is possible that the expectedContentLength property of the NSURLResponse is going to be -1 (NSURLReponseUnknownLength constant). In that case, I would suggest throwing up a standard UIActivityIndicator that you shut off inside connection:didFinishLoading.

2. Make sure that any time you manipulate a visible control from one of the NSURLConnection delegate methods, you do so by calling performSelectorOnMainThread: - otherwise you'll start getting the dreaded EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors.

Using this technique, you can show a progress bar when you know how much data you're supposed to get, and a spinner when you don't know.

Answer 2

You can try to use this subclass of UIWebView which uses the private UIWebView methods - therefore, this solution is not 100% AppStore safe (though some apps do almost 100% use it: Facebook, Google app, ...).

https://github.com/petr-inmite/imtwebview