I need an Activity indicator spinning in a modal view that has an UIScrollView while
the content of the ScrollView (an image from url) is loading.
Any ideas of how to get this done?
As a plus I need to know how to tell the ScrollView to behave like the Photos Iphone Native App, I mean, load an image, adjust it to fit the screen without loosing aspect ratio.
Thanx!!!!
You need to use two steps:
First, download the image and display the activity indicator
When done, display the image and remove the activity indicator
The tricky part is it probably won't work if you just use NSData's initWithContentsOfURL: because it is a blocking call. On the Mac you can use NSURLDownload to download content asynchronously, you should check if this is available on the iPhone SDK.
For using a UIScrollView to display an image and fitting it to the screen at first, you should check the ScrollViewSuite sample code. It does exactly what you are looking for.
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I want to hide animation that shows shutter opening while presenting UIImagePickerController to take picture. I checked this question for the same which contains the accepted but I was unable to replicate that functionality in my controller.
I gave overlayView as self.view and when I hide PLCameraView it shows blank white portion and than I am able to take picture. Is there any way to remove that white portion ?
IF needed I can post my full sourcecode project...
Can some body please highlight how to do this ?
Edit:
What I want to do is based on certain event and conditions I want to place image taken from camera or default image in db. And picture taking doesn't involve user interaction so I put NSTimer and take snapshot with the help of takePicture method.
Any thoughts ?
Instead of messing about with the view hierarchy of UIImagePickerController (which you are forcefully warned against in the docs) you should probably use AVCaptureSession and create your own ImagePicker to capture raw images from the video feed.
See http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/AVCam/Listings/Classes_AVCamCaptureManager_m.html for hints.
I'm developing an application that get images from a website and display to user with a grid view like Photo app by Apple.
When you tap on an image I would to push a view controller that displays images info and other stuff.
What's the better way to implement this? I thought a custom UITableViewCell. (I've seen there are Three20 and AQGridView libs but I'm a newbie developer and the docs are very very poor. Hints?)
Thanks.
I think the UITableView is the best way of doing it. Its memory efficient and your only going to display 3 images anyway so the overhead isn't that bad. A tip, when your asynchronously getting images from the website, create a custom view is a delegate of NSURLRequest, get the data from a webpage, parse the data into a UIImage using imageWithData and when the finished delegate method is called, put a imageview on top of the custom view. This is the best method of downloading asynchronous methods. Good luck!
I made a thumbnail grid list like tableView but multicolumn, it's open source, on
http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/thumbnail-list-view
https://github.com/mohammedDehairy/ThumbnailList
I have a view in my app where I use a very large photo that is Hi-Res and takes a bit of time to load. How do I put a loading screen while this is happening? The kind of loading screen with the spinning loading wheel so that the app does not look like it has frozen? Thanks in advance for any help!
Edit: Note that I am simply loading the image from the main bundle and not a URL
Check out these Open-Source activity indicators.
TDHUDProgressBar
Looks like Tweetie's/Twitter's Progress bar.
MBProgressHUD
A view that appears and contains a Activity Indicator, much like the Private Class UIProgressHUD.
Put an activity indicator (the spinning wheel) into your view and hide it when your hi-res image has finished loading.
I've been looking into creating a gallery mode in my application.
The functionality will be identical to the built in Photos App.
Here's the flow:
1. You touch on a thumbnail and ...
2. a modal view displays a large detail version of the image
3. You have the ability to scroll horizontally through all the images in the gallery while in this modal view
I'm stuck on step 3.
How do I dynamically load hi res images into a scroll view? I understand I need to set the contentSize for the the scrollView but how do I do that when I've only selected and loaded one image? What delegate methods do I need to implement and what does the heavy lifting look like?
Thanks in advance!
Refer to the following example project from apple, it shows how to use a scroll view to scroll horizontally through some views, u shouod only need to change the conents of those views to contain ur images http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/iPad/index.html#samplecode/PageControl/Introduction/Intro.html
I am working on a photo gallery app. Root view is a navigation controller which takes the user to the thumbnail view. Tapping any thumbnail takes the user to PhotoView which shows the tapped image in full screen.
Below is what I have done in my PhotoViewController:
The approach is pretty much similar to the ScrollingMadness project which I found at github.
I initialize a UIScrollView and add it as a subView to my view controller's view. Set some basic properties of UIScrollView.
Add images to UIImageViews (5 in numbers).
Add all these imageViews as a subview to UIScrollView.
When zoom operation is performed on any image, all the image subviews but the current one are removed from the scroll view.
When the image zooms out back to the minimum scale, all the images are added back to the UIScrollView.
As explained in the sample code from Apple, I am using TapDetectingImageView delegate to create the imageViews and handling touch events.
When I run the app, everything works fine in simulator. No issues whatsoever. But when I run the app in device, it crashes after I scroll to 3rd or 4th image. While debugging I found out that didReceiveMemory warning is called after I scroll to 3rd or 4th image.
I run the app using Instruments. The object allocations shows allocation levels to only 1.5-2MB when the crash happens. I believe memory usage to this level is very normal ... right?
Anyone who experienced this before OR any input as to how I can get rid of it... would be all the help I need in world at this time.
Let me know in case you need any other info.
PS > Its frustrating to see the whole app perfect in simulator but crashing in the device :(
It is crashing because its running out of memory, one thing you should check is the size of the pictures, are you picking the image from the photo library w/o editing, sometimes this will give u images of resolution of 1600x1400 which will pretty much just crash the phone because it runs out of memory, for this you should just resize your images to smaller ones. Another problem that could be causing it is you are loading too many images at once (i dont think so though), if you are using t he scroll view to have a scrolling similar to the photo application on the Iphone then you should only need to load 3 images at a time. Also maybe you arent r eleasing the images properly when you are zooming . I dont know if you a re trying to accomplish a similar functionality to the scrolling of pictures in the photo app on iphone, if you are look at the sample project PageControl, they illustrate that pretty well there.