Is there a way in angular that when I want switch to another state (ui-sref) that i can show some load icon until the second state is loaded?
1 Answer
yes angular ui.router has events which you can listen:
$stateChangeStart  -   fired when the transition begins.
$stateChangeSuccess - fired once the state transition is complete.
following this you can write preloader functionality
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
   $rootScope.preloader = false;
}
  $rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
       $rootScope.preloader = true;
    }
and write some   <div>  in your body element and show/hide it with this variable 
eg.
<body> 
    <div ng-show="preloader"></div>
</body>