UIActionSheet taking long time to respond

Question

I am creating a UIActionSheet on actionSheet:clickedButtonAtIndex delegate method.

- (void)actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex     
 if(buttonIndex == 1){

        [self.myFirstView removeFromSuperview]; 

        if (!self.mySecondView) {
            [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"MySecondView" owner:self options:nil];
        }
        [self.mySecondView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview: self.mySecondView];

        UIActionSheet * action = [[UIActionSheet alloc]initWithTitle:@""
                                                            delegate:self
                                                   cancelButtonTitle: nil
                                              destructiveButtonTitle: deleteContacts
                                                   otherButtonTitles: cancel, nil];
        action.tag = 102;
        [action showInView:self.view];
        [action release];

    }

I handle the click event of this UIActionSheet in the exact same method as above.

if(actionSheet.tag == 102){

    if(buttonIndex == 0){
        if([[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"MyThirdView" owner:self options:nil]) { 
            [self.myThirdView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview:self.myThirdView];
        }
        [self.mySecondView removeFromSuperview]; 

        [self.doneButton.target performSelector:self.doneButton.action withObject:self.doneButton.target];

        [self performSelector:@selector(RemoveView) withObject:self afterDelay:3.0];

    }
}

The problem I am facing is that, the UIActionSheet takes too much time to respond. When I click on the UIActionSheet button, its in a frozen state for 2 or 3 seconds, before myThirdView loads. I am not able to understand, whats the response delay in this case as the first thing I do in the UIActionSheet button click event method is to load myThirdView. The rest of the code is executed only after the code to load the myThirdView. But even the first line of code seems to execute after a delay. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Question. Does the UIActionSheet freeze, or does it disappear and the 3rd view isn't visible for 2-3 seconds?

This could be due to 1 of 2 problems.

1. If the entire action sheet freezes, then you are doing some heavy lifting when you init that 3rd view, you are loading some core data, or a lot of assets, or something that is taking a long time. If this is the case, you'll need to reformat HOW you load that 3rd view. I'd suggest pushing any heavy loading to the background (this means if you have a lot of images in your xib, you may need to load them in code).

2. The other possibility, is you are adding the 3rd view BELOW the 2nd view, and then not hiding the 2nd view for 3 seconds (done by performing the selector with a delay). If this is the case, simply remove the delay.

I made a couple of classes to help me time executions and find the bottlenecks in my code, it seems like they might help you now. http://forrst.com/posts/Code_Execution_Timer_for_iOS_Development-dSJ