adding progress bar under navigation bar

Question

I am new to iOS development.

I would like to know if in iOS 7 when sending a message under UINavigationBar, which has a title called : Sending, there is a progress bar that is loading till the message is successfully sent.

My question is:

1. Is that bar a progress bar?

2. In iOS 6, the progress bar is inside the UINavigationBar?

Can someone give me some ideas about how to create this on iOS 7 and iOS6?

I haven't yet tried anything. I would like to read some tutorials or examples with this type of issue.

Here is my code:

int progress=50;

    CGRect navframe = [[self.navigationController navigationBar] frame];
    int height= navframe.size.height;
    sendView = [[UIView alloc] init];
    sendView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 30);
    sendView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    UILabel* lbl = [[UILabel alloc] init];
    lbl.frame = CGRectMake(0,0, 200, 15);
    lbl.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    lbl.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    lbl.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.3];
    lbl.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, -1);
    lbl.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12];
    lbl.text = @"";
    lbl.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
    [sendView addSubview:lbl];
    UIProgressView* pv = [[UIProgressView alloc] initWithProgressViewStyle:UIProgressViewStyleBar];
    pv.frame = CGRectMake(0, 30-pv.frame.size.height, 200, pv.frame.size.height);
    pv.progress = progress/100.0;

  [sendView addSubview:pv];
    [self.navigationController.navigationBar addSubview:sendView];

Unfortunalty the progress bar is not under the navigationController. Why?

Answer 1

What I'm doing in my iOS app is to create and add a UIProgressBar as a subview of the Navigation bar, telling it [progressBar setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO], and adding constraints to pin it left and right to the bar, and its bottom to the bottom of the navigation bar. The navigation controller maintains an ivar to it, and offers public methods to show/hide it, and to set its value. Looks just like the one in Safari as content downloads.

EDIT: here is the code to create and add it to the nav bar:

// in UINavigationController subclass
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    UIProgressView *progress = [[UIProgressView alloc] initWithProgressViewStyle:UIProgressViewStyleBar];
    progress.tag = DISPLAY_PROGRESS_VIEW;
    [self.view addSubview:progress];
    UINavigationBar *navBar = [self navigationBar];

    NSLayoutConstraint *constraint;
    constraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:progress attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:navBar attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom multiplier:1 constant:-0.5];
    [self.view addConstraint:constraint];

    constraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:progress attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeft relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:navBar attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeft multiplier:1 constant:0];
    [self.view addConstraint:constraint];

    constraint = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:progress attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:navBar attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight multiplier:1 constant:0];
    [self.view addConstraint:constraint];

    [progress setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
    progress.hidden = YES;
 }