Showing progress indicator

As we said, one of the features that we can add in the preceding example is the ability to show a progress bar indicating the downloading progress of a file. Before starting with how to show a progress bar, let's install a library that is very helpful in managing/showing HUD indicators, which is MBProgressHUD. This library is available in GitHub at https://github.com/jdg/MBProgressHUD.

As we agreed before, all packages are managed via CocoaPods, so now, let's install the library via CocoaPods, as shown:

  1. Open the Podfile and update it to be as follows:
 use_frameworks! target 'PDFPicker' do end target 'MessagesExtension' do pod 'GoogleAPIClient/Drive', '~> 1.0.2' pod 'GTMOAuth2', '~> 1.1.0' pod 'MBProgressHUD', ...

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