Show activity indicator in SDWebImage

Question

I'm using SDWebView image and i want to show an Activity Indicator as placeholder, while fetching the image from remote.

I tried Malek's answer here How to show an activity indicator in SDWebImage, but it seems that

UIImage *cachedImage = [manager imageWithURL:url];

is deprecated.

Is there anyone using this library that could tell me how can i insert an Activity Indicator while loading the image?

EDIT

Following the indications of Michael Frederick, i ended up with this code and everything's working fine.

UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator = [[[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite] autorelease];
activityIndicator.hidesWhenStopped = YES;
activityIndicator.hidden = NO;
[activityIndicator startAnimating];
activityIndicator.center = CGPointMake(self.tipImage.frame.size.width /2, self.tipImage.frame.size.height/2);
[imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:imageString]
          placeholderImage:nil options:SDWebImageProgressiveDownload
                   success:^(UIImage *image) { [activityIndicator stopAnimating];[activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }
                   failure:^(NSError *error) {  [activityIndicator stopAnimating];[activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }];

[imageView addSubview:activityIndicator];

Answer 1

This fork has support for this functionality. Take a look at the diff.

But, in general, you can do it rather easily without using that fork:

__block UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:activityStyle];
activityIndicator.center = imageView.center;
activityIndicator.hidesWhenStopped = YES;
[imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.domain.com/path/to/image.jpg"]
               placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.png"]
                        success:^(UIImage *image) { [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }
                        failure:^(NSError *error) { [activityIndicator removeFromSuperview]; }];

[imageView addSubview:activityIndicator];
[activityIndicator startAnimating];

Answer 2

This is how you do it:

[imageView setIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite];
[imageView setShowActivityIndicatorView:true];
[imageView sd_setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:imageUrl] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"defaultl_image"]];

Answer 3

That's my solution. In that file : UIImageView+WebCache.m

Find that method and change like that:

- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder
{
    UIActivityIndicatorView *activity = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray)];
    [activity startAnimating];
    [activity setFrame:CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x - 20, self.frame.origin.y - 10, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];
    [self addSubview:activity];

    //[self setImageWithURL:url placeholderImage:placeholder options:0 progress:nil completed:nil];

    [self setImageWithURL:url
         placeholderImage:placeholder
                  options:0
                completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType)
     {
             [activity removeFromSuperview];
     }];
}

Answer 4

Last solution

You can download UIActivityIndicator-for-SDWebImage, which is easiest way to add a UIActivityView to your SDWebImage view. Using CocoaPods, just add this line to your podfile:

pod 'UIActivityIndicator-for-SDWebImage'

You can use one of these lines depending on your preferences:

- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder options:(SDWebImageOptions)options usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url completed:(SDWebImageCompletionBlock)completedBlock usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder completed:(SDWebImageCompletionBlock)completedBlock usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder options:(SDWebImageOptions)options completed:(SDWebImageCompletionBlock)completedBlock usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url placeholderImage:(UIImage *)placeholder options:(SDWebImageOptions)options progress:(SDWebImageDownloaderProgressBlock)progressBlock completed:(SDWebImageCompletionBlock)completedBlock usingActivityIndicatorStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityStyle;

Example of Use

Just import

#import <UIActivityIndicator-for-SDWebImage/UIImageView+UIActivityIndicatorForSDWebImage.h>

and use this code

[imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/wc_200_200/p/1/005/07f/0a3/30cb8dd.jpg"] placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.jpg"] usingActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];

Answer 5

SDWebImage has a built in Acitvity Indicator that works perfectly. Try this:

Updates: SWIFT 5 SDWebImage 5.x.x

        imgView.sd_imageIndicator = SDWebImageActivityIndicator.gray
        imgView.sd_setImage(with: url, placeholderImage: UIImage(named: "placeholder"))

Swift 3:

imgView.setShowActivityIndicator(true)
imgView.setIndicatorStyle(.gray)
imgView.sd_setImage(with: URL(string: urlString), placeholderImage: UIImage(named: "placeholder"))