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SOLVED: Check below for the solution to my problem.

Hey SO,

I’m having trouble centering the UIActivityIndicator in the center of the view. As you can see here, it’s a little farther down vertically than it should be. What I have is a UIScrollView that later adds a UIImage subview. Before the UIImage loads though, I have this UIActivityIndicator to show that the image is loading.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{

    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.scrollView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    UIActivityIndicatorView *spinner = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]       initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge];
    spinner.center = self.view.center;

    [spinner startAnimating];
    [self.view addSubview:spinner];

Any ideas on how I could get the center CGPoint and set the UIActivityIndicator there? I’m not sure why self.view.center doesn’t work.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I had to account for the height of the navigation bar and the tab bar. The code I had to add was :

float navigationBarHeight = [[self.navigationController navigationBar] frame].size.height;
float tabBarHeight = [[[super tabBarController] tabBar] frame].size.height;
spinner.center = CGPointMake(self.view.frame.size.width / 2.0, (self.view.frame.size.height  - navigationBarHeight - tabBarHeight) / 2.0);

Answer 1

Two problems:

1. First, self.view.center is the center of the current view’s frame on it’s parent’s frame. If you want the center of the current view, you want CGPointMake(self.view.frame.size.width / 2.0, self.view.frame.size.height / 2.0);

2. Second, your current view does not include the navigationbar, so you’re centering it on the space of the screen below the nav bar. That will also make it look lower.