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iOS

Posted by Thomas France
Thomas France
4,139 Points

How to implement "pull to refresh on a standard view (not tabke view) ?

I am practising and trying to avoid making the refresh of the stormy app through the button. I checked on the web and I can only find "pull to refresh" implementation on a UITableView, is there a way to do it on a regular view?

Thanks

1 Answer

Martin Wildfeuer
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Martin Wildfeuer
Courses Plus Student 11,071 Points
Martin Wildfeuer
Martin Wildfeuer
Courses Plus Student 11,071 Points

Your view does not necessarily have to be a UITableView, but I would recommend to use a UIScrollView (that's what a UITableView is under the hood anyhow). That is, embed your view in a UIScrollView, this way you should be able to use SVPullToRefresh - Objective-C, or Refresher - Swift, for example.

// SVPullToRefresh example
[yourScrollView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
    // prepend data to dataSource, insert cells at top of table view
    // call [yourScrollView.pullToRefreshView stopAnimating] when done
}];

Admittedly, this is untested and rather intended to give you an idea. I have never used pull-to-refresh without a table/collection view, so let me know if that works :)