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@essent/nativescript-loading-indicator
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A NativeScript plugin for showing an overlayed loading indicator.
nativescript-loading-indicator is a plugin for NativeScript which overlays a loading indicator on the current page. Can be used, for example, to prevent the UI being interacted with while data is being fetched from an API, while informing the user that something is happening.
tns plugin add nativescript-loading-indicator
var LoadingIndicator = require("nativescript-loading-indicator").LoadingIndicator;
// or with TypeScript:
// import {LoadingIndicator} from "nativescript-loading-indicator";
var loader = new LoadingIndicator();
// optional options
// android and ios have some platform specific options
var options = {
message: 'Loading...',
progress: 0.65,
android: {
indeterminate: true,
cancelable: false,
max: 100,
progressNumberFormat: "%1d/%2d",
progressPercentFormat: 0.53,
progressStyle: 1,
secondaryProgress: 1
},
ios: {
details: "Additional detail note!",
margin: 10,
dimBackground: true,
color: "#4B9ED6", // color of indicator and labels
// background box around indicator
// hideBezel will override this if true
backgroundColor: "yellow",
hideBezel: true, // default false, can hide the surrounding bezel
view: UIView, // Target view to show on top of (Defaults to entire window)
mode: // see iOS specific options below
}
};
loader.show(options); // options is optional
// Do whatever it is you want to do while the loader is showing, then
loader.hide();
string Your message!number Set progress displayQuick Mode Reference:
MBProgressHUDModeDeterminateMBProgressHUDModeAnnularDeterminateMBProgressHUDModeDeterminateHorizontalBarMBProgressHUDModeTextMBProgressHUDModeCustomView
customView: string - local path to an image file

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A NativeScript plugin for showing an overlayed loading indicator.
We found that @essent/nativescript-loading-indicator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 34 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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