Create custom activity indicator in iPhone SDK?

Question

I did not find links to applications that use the user activity indicator - it would be an animated old school school GIF - instead of Apple-supplied spinning wheels. Are there any possibilities for this (or a subclass of UIActivityIndicatorView), do developers make their own UIViews or does it violate HIG?

Thanks IPD

Answer 1

Yes, as Ed Marty noted, UIImageView supports image animation. So look at the custom activity indicator to get inspiration on how you could achieve this in a very simple way.

Greetings

Answer 2

UIImageView . .

Answer 3

Or you can use animation to rotate the layer. Here is an interesting post on how to do this:

http://www.cimgf.com/2008/10/25/core-animation-tutorial-slider-based-layer-rotation/

Hope this helps.

Thierry