No indication that user list is loading when inviting to room

[kittykat]

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to room -> room detail -> "Invite people"
2. Start typing username
3. Click "search"

Outcome

What did you expect?

Instantly see results

What happened instead?

First time it took a minute to see the exact match

Your phone model

Pixel 6a

Operating system version

Graphene OS

Application version and app store

Nightly

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

Tasks

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1. iOS: Add loading indicator to the user search screen
2. No indication that user list is loading when inviting to room element-x-android#2172
   A-Invite T-Task +2
   

[kittykat]

Also do not get told that the search can't happen when in airplane mode/offline

[amshakal]

We should probably have a spinner if results are loading

[manuroe]

iOS spinner:

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[ganfra]

So we don't show the spinner before we have the minimal number of chars in the query (3 at the moment)?
Also if the query is a userId, we are showing a fake result, but we are also searching for more results. So should the spinner be shown in those cases too?

[amshakal]

I dont think we show spinner on iOS before 3 characters as well, so we can use the same pattern on android. I think if are searching for more results, we should show the spinner.

[claell]

After implementing #2172, does this still need other implementations, or can this be closed?

[manuroe]

Sure, we can can close it.