Ios – UIWebView webViewDidFinishLoad not getting called iOS

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I am loading some file from document directory using UIWebView. I have set the delegate of UIWebView and I am responding to 2 methods of delegate that is
webViewDidStartLoad and webViewDidFinishLoad I am receiving the webViewDidStartLoad But I am not receiving webViewDidFinishLoad method.

Below is the code:

@interface MyView: UIViewController <UIWebViewDelegate> {
           UIWebView *webView;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIWebView *webView;

========================= Class ===========================

-(void)viewDidLoad {
    CGRect webFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
    mWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:webFrame];
    mWebView.delegate = self;
    mWebView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
    [self.view addSubview:mWebView];
        NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", pathString]];

    [mWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]] ];
}

// Delegate methods

-(void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
    NSLog(@"start");    
}   

-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
    NSLog(@"finish");   
}


-(void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error {
    NSLog(@"Error for WEBVIEW: %@", [error description]);
}

Please let me know what is going wrong. I am not getting any error in didFailLoadWithError delegate method.

Note:- the file that I am loading are huge say 3 MB.

Thanks

=============EDITED==================

As I was loading very huge File the delegate was coming after very long duration that I was not able to notice but for small files everything is working fine

Best Answer

Hey probably you should do this,

-(void)viewDidLoad {

   //webView alloc and add to view

    CGRect webFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
    mWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:webFrame];
    mWebView.delegate = self;
    mWebView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
    [self.view addSubview:mWebView];

    //path of local html file present in documentsDirectory

     NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", pathString]];

    //load file into webView
    [mWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]] ];

    //show activity indicator
    [self showActivityIndicator]
}

Call removeLoadingView method in the following UIWebViewDelegate methods

-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {

  [self removeLoadingView];   
   NSLog(@"finish");   
}


-(void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error {

    [self removeLoadingView];
    NSLog(@"Error for WEBVIEW: %@", [error description]);
}

The showActivityIndicator method

-(void) showActivityIndicator
{
  //Add a UIView in your .h and give it the same property as you have given to your webView. 
  //Also ensure that you synthesize these properties on top of your implementation file

       loadingView = [UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]]
       loadingView.alpha = 0.5;

 //Create and add a spinner to loadingView in the center and animate it. Then add this loadingView to self.View using

    [self.view addSubView:loadingView];
}

The removeLoadingView method

-(void) removeLoadingView
{
   [loadingView removeFromSuperView];
}
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