BigBrother alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Activity Indicator" category.
Alternatively, view BigBrother alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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SkeletonView
☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting -
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SwiftSpinner
A beautiful activity indicator and modal alert written in Swift (originally developed for my app DoodleDoodle) Using blur effects, translucency, flat and bold design - all iOS 8 latest and greatest -
FillableLoaders
Completely customizable progress based loaders drawn using custom CGPaths written in Swift -
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YLProgressBar
UIProgressView replacement with an highly and fully customizable animated progress bar in pure Core Graphics -
MBCircularProgressBar
A circular, animatable & highly customizable progress bar from the Interface Builder (Objective-C) -
PageControls
This is a selection of custom page controls to replace UIPageControl, inspired by a dribbble found here: https://dribbble.com/shots/2578447-Page-Control-Indicator-Transitions-Collection -
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StackViewController
A controller that uses a UIStackView and view controller composition to display content in a list -
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AlamofireNetworkActivityIndicator
Controls the visibility of the network activity indicator on iOS using Alamofire. -
Skeleton
✨ An easy way to create sliding CAGradientLayer animations! Works great for creating skeleton screens for loading content. -
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StepProgressView
Step-by-step progress view with labels and shapes. A good replacement for UIActivityIndicatorView and UIProgressView. -
IHProgressHUD
A clean and lightweight progress HUD based on SVProgressHUD, converted to Swift with the help of Swiftify. -
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AudioIndicatorBars
DISCONTINUED. AIB indicates for your app users which audio is playing. Just like the Podcasts app. -
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KYNavigationProgress
Simple extension of UINavigationController to display progress on the UINavigationBar. -
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StatusBarOverlay
StatusBarOverlay will automatically show a "No Internet Connection" bar when your app loses connection, and hide it again. It supports apps which hide the status bar and The Notch -
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README
BigBrother
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
BigBrother is a Swift library made for iOS that automatically watches for any performed request and sets the network activity indicator.
This is mostly a proof of concept, having several limitations because of how NSURLProtocol works. Some of them are:
NSURLProtocoldoesn't inheritNSURLSession's configured headers (see https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/473)NSURLProtocolisn't compatible with authentication APIs (see https://github.com/marcelofabri/BigBrother/issues/2)
It was inspired by this comment by Mattt Thompson.
It also was based on this tutorial for creating an NSURLProtocol and on AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager from AFNetworking.
Usage
Adding
Adding to NSURLConnection and NSURLSession.sharedSession()
BigBrother.addToSharedSession()
Adding to a custom NSURLSessionConfiguration
var configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
BigBrother.addToSessionConfiguration(configuration)
let session = NSURLSession(configuration: configuration)
Removing
Removing from NSURLConnection and NSURLSession.sharedSession()
BigBrother.removeFromSharedSession()
Removing from a custom NSURLSessionConfiguration
var configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
BigBrother.removeFromSessionConfiguration(configuration)
let newSession = NSURLSession(configuration: configuration)
It is important to configure your NSURLSessionConfiguration object appropriately before using it to initialize a session object. Session objects make a copy of the configuration settings you provide and use those settings to configure the session. Once configured, the session object ignores any changes you make to the NSURLSessionConfiguration object. If you need to modify your transfer policies, you must update the session configuration object and use it to create a new NSURLSession object.
Advanced usage
BigBrother.URLProtocol is an NSURLProtocol subclass that manages the network activity indicator and it's public if you want to add it yourself to an NSURLSessionConfiguration or to the default NSURLProtocol (used by NSURLConnection and NSURLSession.sharedSession()).
BigBrother.Manager is also public, so you can manage the network activity indicator directly:
BigBrother.Manager.sharedInstance.incrementActivityCount()
// do something...
BigBrother.Manager.sharedInstance.decrementActivityCount()
Installation
BigBrother is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'BigBrother'
Then run pod install with CocoaPods 0.36 or newer.
Unit Tests
Unit testing is done with XCTest and the tests are available under the BigBrotherTests folder.
Collaborating
- If you found a bug, open an issue.
- If you have a feature request, open an issue.
- If you want to contribute, submit a pull request. They're more than welcome!
Contact
Marcelo Fabri
License
BigBrother is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the BigBrother README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.