When does network spinner appear?

Question

Just out of curiosity what kind of network activity causes the spinner in the status bar to spin? It never spins in my app even when data is being fetched. In Instagram, it always spins when data is being fetched.

Edit: To clarify that this question is not a duplicate. I am wondering what makes the loading indicator appear in the status bar, not just how to make it appear. Is it common to call UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = true every time a call is made to the server?

`UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = true` And set `false` when you want to hide it. — Bhavin Ramani, Mar 17 '17 at 06:05
What API are you using for network call? Are you using NSURL or NSURLSession methods? Or some third party libraries? — Anoop Nyati, Mar 17 '17 at 06:14
If you are using some third party library like curl you won't see activity indicator. — Anoop Nyati, Mar 17 '17 at 07:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '17 at 06:07

Hi you can show network indicator every time you make a call to web service. You can show network indicator with

UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true

and remove it when you received response from web service with

UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = false

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '17 at 06:34

for Swift 2.0

UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = false

for Swift 3.0

UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
UIApplication.shared.isNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible = false

When does network spinner appear?

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