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Custom Loader (Activity Indicator) in Swift

Creating a custom activity indicator in Swift allows you to tailor the appearance and behavior of your loading spinner to fit the style of your app. Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a simple custom activity indicator using UIView Step 1: Create a New Swift File for the Custom Activity Indicator Create a new Swift file and name it  RotatingCirclesView.swift . Add the following code to define a custom UIView subclass for your activity indicator: // //   RotatingCirclesView.swift //   Welcome In // //   Created by Praveen Kumar on 05/09/24. // import UIKit class RotatingCirclesView : UIView {          let circle1 = UIView ( frame : CGRect ( x : 20 , y : 20 , width : 60 , height : 60 ))     let circle2 = UIView ( frame : CGRect ( x : 120 , y : 20 , width : 60 , height : 60 ))          let position : [ CGRect ] = [ CGRect ( x : 30 , y : 20 , width : 60 , height : 60 ), CGRect ( x : 60 , y : 15 ,...

Custom Activity Indicator with String title in Swift/iOS?

 How to create an Activity Indicator with String title in Swift/iOS?

Activity Indicator is the spinning wheel with a custom background view that indicates a task is in progress. Apple has provided a basic activity indicator view for UIActivityIndicator Class, but that doesn’t provide appearance customisation view. In this post share custom Activity Indicator in which you can edit your message and image


Activity Indicator with String title


Let’s start customise design a activity indicator

Create a swift class => CAVProgressHud.swift


import UIKit

let SCREEN_WIDTH = UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width

let SIZE_CONSTANT = 375.0

let SCREEN_HEIGHT = UIScreen.main.bounds.size.height

 

@available(iOS 13.0, *)

class CAVProgressHud {

    static let sharedInstance = CAVProgressHud()

    

    var container = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: SCREEN_WIDTH, height: SCREEN_HEIGHT))

    var subContainer = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 110))

    var textLabel = UILabel()

    var activityIndicatorView = UIActivityIndicatorView()

    var blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .dark))

    

    init() {

        //Main Container

        container.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

        

        //Sub Container

        subContainer.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0

        subContainer.layer.masksToBounds = true

        subContainer.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

        

        //Activity Indicator

        activityIndicatorView.hidesWhenStopped = true

        

        //Text Label

        textLabel.textAlignment = .center

        textLabel.numberOfLines = 0

        textLabel.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14.0, weight: .medium)

        textLabel.textColor = UIColor.darkGray

        

        //Blur Effect

        //always fill the view

        blurEffectView.frame = container.bounds

        blurEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]

    }

 

    //MARKS:-  A Simple Activity Indicator

 

    func show() -> Void {

        container.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.50)

        activityIndicatorView.style = UIActivityIndicatorView.Style.large

        activityIndicatorView.center = CGPoint(x: SCREEN_WIDTH / 2, y: SCREEN_HEIGHT / 2)

        activityIndicatorView.color = UIColor.white

        

        activityIndicatorView.startAnimating()

        container.addSubview(activityIndicatorView)

       if let window = getKeyWindow() {

            window.addSubview(container)

        }

        container.alpha = 0.0

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {

            self.container.alpha = 1.0

        })

    }

 

//MARKS:-  Activity Indicator With A String Message

 

    func show(withTitle title: String?) {

        container.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.50)

        subContainer.backgroundColor = UIColor.white

        subContainer.center = CGPoint(x: SCREEN_WIDTH / 2, y: SCREEN_HEIGHT / 2)

        container.addSubview(subContainer)

        activityIndicatorView.style = UIActivityIndicatorView.Style.large

        activityIndicatorView.color = UIColor.init(red: 33/250, green: 150/250, blue: 243/250, alpha: 1)

        activityIndicatorView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 20, width: subContainer.bounds.width, height: subContainer.bounds.height / 3.0)

        activityIndicatorView.center = CGPoint(x: activityIndicatorView.center.x, y: activityIndicatorView.center.y)

        subContainer.addSubview(activityIndicatorView)

        

        let height: CGFloat = subContainer.bounds.height - activityIndicatorView.bounds.height - 10.0

        textLabel.frame = CGRect(x: 5, y: 10 + activityIndicatorView.bounds.height, width: subContainer.bounds.width - 10.0, height: height - 5.0)

        

        textLabel.font = UIFont.init(name: "Lato-Bold", size: 18.0)

        textLabel.text = title

        subContainer.addSubview(textLabel)

        

        activityIndicatorView.startAnimating()

        if let window = getKeyWindow() {

            window.addSubview(container)

        }

        container.alpha = 0.0

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {

            self.container.alpha = 1.0

        })

    }

 

      //MARKS:-  Activity Indicator With A String Message and Dark Background View

 

    func showDarkBackgroundView(withTitle title: String?) {

        container.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.85)

        subContainer.backgroundColor = UIColor.systemGroupedBackground

        subContainer.center = CGPoint(x: SCREEN_WIDTH / 2, y: SCREEN_HEIGHT / 2)

        container.addSubview(subContainer)

        activityIndicatorView.style = UIActivityIndicatorView.Style.medium

        activityIndicatorView.color = UIColor.black

        activityIndicatorView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 10, width: subContainer.bounds.width, height: subContainer.bounds.height / 3.0)

        activityIndicatorView.center = CGPoint(x: activityIndicatorView.center.x, y: activityIndicatorView.center.y)

        subContainer.addSubview(activityIndicatorView)

        

        let height: CGFloat = subContainer.bounds.height - activityIndicatorView.bounds.height - 10.0

        textLabel.frame = CGRect(x: 5, y: 10 + activityIndicatorView.bounds.height, width: subContainer.bounds.width - 10.0, height: height - 5.0)

        textLabel.text = title

        subContainer.addSubview(textLabel)

        

        activityIndicatorView.startAnimating()

        if let window = getKeyWindow() {

            window.addSubview(container)

        }

        container.alpha = 0.0

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {

            self.container.alpha = 1.0

        })

    }

 

    //MARKS:-  Activity Indicator With A String Message and Blur View

 

    func showBlurView(withTitle title: String?) {

        

        //only apply the blur if the user hasn't disabled transparency effects

        if !UIAccessibility.isReduceTransparencyEnabled {

            container.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

            container.addSubview(blurEffectView)

        } else {

            container.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.85)

        }

        

        subContainer.backgroundColor = UIColor.systemGroupedBackground

        activityIndicatorView.color = UIColor.black

        subContainer.center = CGPoint(x: SCREEN_WIDTH / 2, y: SCREEN_HEIGHT / 2)

        container.addSubview(subContainer)

        

        activityIndicatorView.style = UIActivityIndicatorView.Style.medium

        activityIndicatorView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 10, width: subContainer.bounds.width, height: subContainer.bounds.height / 3.0)

        activityIndicatorView.center = CGPoint(x: activityIndicatorView.center.x, y: activityIndicatorView.center.y)

        subContainer.addSubview(activityIndicatorView)

        

        let height: CGFloat = subContainer.bounds.height - activityIndicatorView.bounds.height - 10.0

        textLabel.frame = CGRect(x: 5, y: 10 + activityIndicatorView.bounds.height, width: subContainer.bounds.width - 10.0, height: height - 5.0)

        textLabel.text = title

        subContainer.addSubview(textLabel)

        

        activityIndicatorView.startAnimating()

        if let window = getKeyWindow() {

            window.addSubview(container)

        }

        container.alpha = 0.0

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {

            self.container.alpha = 1.0

        })

    }

    

    func updateProgressTitle(_ title: String?) {

        textLabel.text = title

    }

 

 //MARKS:-  Hide & Stop Activity Indicator 

 

    func hide() {

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {

            self.container.alpha = 0.0

        }) { finished in

            self.activityIndicatorView.stopAnimating()

            self.activityIndicatorView.removeFromSuperview()

            self.textLabel.removeFromSuperview()

            self.subContainer.removeFromSuperview()

            self.blurEffectView.removeFromSuperview()

            self.container.removeFromSuperview()

        }

    }

    private func getKeyWindow() -> UIWindow? {

        let window = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes

            .filter({$0.activationState == .foregroundActive})

            .map({$0 as? UIWindowScene})

            .compactMap({$0})

            .first?.windows

            .filter({$0.isKeyWindow}).first

        

        return window

    }

}


Used to CAVProgressHud.swift class anywhere UIController your project


Start Activity Indicator and Stop


Start:-

CAVProgressHud.sharedInstance.show(withTitle: "Please wait...")

 

Stop:-

CAVProgressHud.sharedInstance.hide()

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