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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:33:36+00:00

I have seen many apps that load data to UITableViews from the internet, and

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I have seen many apps that load data to UITableViews from the internet, and they usually load smoothly. Now it’s my turn to load in that kind of data. I am getting different data at the same time, separating categories with ~ and pieces of categories with #. This works great, and I have managed to separate the data in obj-c perfectly.

Everything in my app works, it’s just that the loading takes a lot of time.

So, I guess the real question is, how can you load in data for a tableView in the background, showing a label/UIActivityView or something while it is loading?

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simplest way is to add a temporary cell which shows some kind of loading progress (label with ‘Loading…’ text, or a UIActivityIndicator, etc). When your data is done loading, remove that cell and add your actual cells with your data.

    To load data ‘in the background’ I would recommend having a look at NSURLConnection. It lets you implicitly load the data asynchronously so you don’t have to deal with threads.

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