how to use the progress bar in the iphone app

Question

In my iPhone app I am downloading some data from an FTP server. To show the action I am using UIActivityIndicator. If I put UIProgressView there instead of UIActivityIndicator, it will be more appropriate. How do I use UIProgressView while downloading some data? Can anybody give me a tutorial link or example code? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

first you create IBOutlet in .h file

IBOutlet UIProgressView * threadProgressView;

Then in .m file in viewdidload first set progress to 0.0 and then call makeMyProgressMoving method

    threadProgressView.progress = 0.0;
    [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(makeMyProgressBarMoving) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];

then add below method

- (void)makeMyProgressBarMoving {

        float actual = [threadProgressView progress];
        if (actual < 1) {
            threadProgressView.progress = actual + ((float)recievedData/(float)xpectedTotalSize);
            [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.05 target:self selector:@selector(makeMyProgressBarMoving) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
        }
        else{



        }

    } 

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