Development Tip: Displaying and Centering a Spinner in an Ionic App

With Appery.io and Ionic, you can easily add a spinner to a page:

  1. Drag’n’drop the spinner component to a page.
  2. Provide an expression for ng-show in the properties panel. It could be a variable that returns true or false.
  3. To vertically and horizontally center the spinner do the following:
    1. Add a centered-spinner class to Class in the properties panel.
    2. Create new CSS by going to CREATE NEW > CSS > Create CSS.
    3. Add the following code to create the CSS file:
.centered-spinner {
    width: 28px;
    height: 28px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-top: -14px;
    margin-left: -14px;
}

.scroll
{
    height:100%;
}
spinner
Ionic spinners

Your spinner is ready to use! Don’t forget to change the variable provided for ng-show to true when you need to show the spinner, and to false when you need to hide it.

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