iOS: download a file and show progress

Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de
Tue Jun 5 16:28:55 EDT 2012


Chris,

There is a  urlprogress handler for that. I am doing that that way.

Search for "non-file url access" in the ios Release notes. There you find all you need.

Regards,

Matthias


Am 05.06.2012 um 21:46 schrieb Chris Sheffield:

> In the recent Small Business Academy videos, Kevin gave a handy example for how to download a file and show progress... in a desktop app. The same process doesn't seem to work for an iOS app. As far as I can tell, the crucial URLStatus() function does not work under iOS, and this is the function that, in Kevin's example, provides the file size and amount downloaded, etc.
> 
> So is it even possible to do this under iOS? Can I, for example, download a zip archive that's several MB's in size and show the download progress? I'm probably missing something totally obvious...
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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