How to add an Indicator to UIImagePickerController

ios, iphone, uiactivityindicatorview, uiimagepickercontroller

Solution

You should add the UIActivityIndicatorView at the top of the view hierarchy or it will get dismissed with the UIPickerViewController, unless you use a callback after the resize operation and in the callback you dismiss the UIImagePickerController.

Or you could use a progress HUD like SVProgressHUD.

Hope this helps =)

We did a little chat session and solved this way:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{ 
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ 
          UIView *primaryImage = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,460)]; 
          primaryImage.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; 
          primaryImage.alpha =0.9; 

          UIView *secondaryImage = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,70,70)]; 
          secondaryImage.center = CGPointMake(160, 240); 
          secondaryImage.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor]; 
          secondaryImage.alpha = 0.9; 
          secondaryImage.layer.cornerRadius = 12; 
          [primaryImage addSubview:secondaryImage]; 
          UIActivityIndicatorView *indicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 25, 25)]; 
          indicator.center = CGPointMake(35, 35); 
          [indicator setHidesWhenStopped:NO]; 
          [secondaryImage addSubview:indicator]; 
          [indicator startAnimating]; 

          [indicator release]; 
          [secondaryImage release]; 

          [picker.view addSubview:primaryImage]; 

         [primaryImage release]; 
     }); 

    // Put here the code to resize the image 

    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ 
    // Dismiss the picker controller

    });
});

Problem

I have an image picker to pick multiple images from the photo library. The picked photos are resized and saved to file in `imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:`. It takes a few seconds. Could I put an indicator on the view? I have tried to use `addSubview:indicatorView` in `imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:` method. But indicatorView doesn't appear. It gets dismissed with the imagePickerView.

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