Activity indicator for 5seconds?

Question

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I am trying to run UIActivityIndicator for a 5 seconds on viewdidappear method .But how do i give a time limit for activity indicator(5 seconds) ?

This is the code for UIActivityIndicator

 UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView=[[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]     initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge];

    activityView.center=self.view.center;

    [activityView startAnimating];

    [self.view addSubview:activityView];

Answer 1

With one line and no additional dependencies & conditions:

[activityView performSelector:@selector(removeFromSuperview) withObject:nil afterDelay:5.0];