Reputation: 1343
I'm using a button to populate a UIPickerView
on a hidden UIVisualEffectView
. The user clicks the button, the VisualEffectView
blurs everything else, and the PickerView
displays all the names in their contact list (I'm using SwiftAddressBook to do this.)
This works fine except when the user clicks the button, the UI locks up for about 5-10 seconds. I can't find any evidence of heavy CPU or memory usage. If I just print the sorted array to the console, it happens almost immediately. So something about showing the window is causing this bug.
@IBAction func getBffContacts(sender: AnyObject) {
swiftAddressBook?.requestAccessWithCompletion({ (success, error) -> Void in
if success {
if let people = swiftAddressBook?.allPeople {
self.pickerDataSource = [String]()
for person in people {
if (person.firstName != nil && person.lastName != nil) {
//println("\(person.firstName!) \(person.lastName!)")
self.pickerDataSource.append(person.firstName!)
}
}
//println(self.pickerDataSource)
println("done")
self.sortedNames = self.pickerDataSource.sorted { $0.localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare($1) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending }
self.pickerView.reloadAllComponents()
self.blurView.hidden = false
}
}
else {
//no success, access denied. Optionally evaluate error
}
})
}
Upvotes: 2
Views: 68
Reputation: 536037
You have a threading issue. Read. The. Docs!
requestAccessWithCompletion
is merely a wrapper for ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion
. And what do we find there?
The completion handler is called on an arbitrary queue
So your code is running in the background. And you must never, never, never attempt to interact with the user interface on a background thread. All of your code is wrong. You need to step out to the main thread immediately at the start of the completion handler. If you don't, disaster awaits.
Upvotes: 5