[swift] How to display an activity indicator with text on iOS 8 with Swift?

Based o my previous answer, here is a more elegant solution with a custom class:

First define this custom class:

import UIKit
import Foundation

class ActivityIndicatorView
{
    var view: UIView!

var activityIndicator: UIActivityIndicatorView!

var title: String!

init(title: String, center: CGPoint, width: CGFloat = 200.0, height: CGFloat = 50.0)
{
    self.title = title

    let x = center.x - width/2.0
    let y = center.y - height/2.0

    self.view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: x, y: y, width: width, height: height))
    self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 255.0/255.0, green: 204.0/255.0, blue: 51.0/255.0, alpha: 0.5)
    self.view.layer.cornerRadius = 10

    self.activityIndicator = UIActivityIndicatorView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 50, height: 50))
    self.activityIndicator.color = UIColor.blackColor()
    self.activityIndicator.hidesWhenStopped = false

    let titleLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 60, y: 0, width: 200, height: 50))
    titleLabel.text = title
    titleLabel.textColor = UIColor.blackColor()

    self.view.addSubview(self.activityIndicator)
    self.view.addSubview(titleLabel)
}

func getViewActivityIndicator() -> UIView
{
    return self.view
}

func startAnimating()
{
    self.activityIndicator.startAnimating()
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().beginIgnoringInteractionEvents()
}

func stopAnimating()
{
    self.activityIndicator.stopAnimating()
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().endIgnoringInteractionEvents()

    self.view.removeFromSuperview()
}
//end
}

Now on your UIViewController class:

var activityIndicatorView: ActivityIndicatorView!

override func viewDidLoad()
{
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.activityIndicatorView = ActivityIndicatorView(title: "Processing...", center: self.view.center)
    self.view.addSubview(self.activityIndicatorView.getViewActivityIndicator())

}

func doSomething()
{
    self.activityIndicatorView.startAnimating()
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().beginIgnoringInteractionEvents()

    //do something here that will taking time

    self.activityIndicatorView.stopAnimating()
}