There are dozens of pull to refresh views. I've never found one I'm happy with. I always end up customizing one, so I decided to write one that's highly customizable. You can just write you view and forget about the actual pull to refresh details.
If you're using SSPullToRefresh in your application, add it to the list.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.pullToRefreshView = [[SSPullToRefreshView alloc] initWithScrollView:self.tableView delegate:self];
}
- (void)viewDidUnload {
[super viewDidUnload];
self.pullToRefreshView = nil;
}
- (void)refresh {
[self.pullToRefreshView startLoading];
// Load data...
[self.pullToRefreshView finishLoading];
}
- (void)pullToRefreshViewDidStartLoading:(SSPullToRefreshView *)view {
[self refresh];
}
SSPullToRefresh view is highly customizable. All of the pulling logic, animations, etc are wrapped up for you in SSPullToRefreshView. It doesn't have any UI. Its contentView
handles displaying the UI. By default, it sets up an instance of SSSimplePullToRefreshContentView
as the contentView
.
SSPullToRefreshDefaultContentView and SSPullToRefreshSimpleContentView are provided by SSPullToRefresh. By default SSPullToRefreshDefaultContentView
is used if you do not provide a content view. To use the provided simple content view, simply set it:
pullToRefreshView.contentView = [[SSPullToRefreshSimpleContentView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
You can simply subclass SSPullToRefreshDefaultContentView
or implement your own view that conforms to SSPullToRefreshContentView
. You must implement the following method:
- (void)setState:(SSPullToRefreshViewState)state withPullToRefreshView:(SSPullToRefreshView *)view
This method will get called whenever the state changes. Here are the possible states. It is recommended to implement UI for most of the states, but you can do whatever you want.
SSPullToRefreshViewStateNormal
(recommended) — Most will say "Pull to refresh" in this stateSSPullToRefreshViewStateReady
(recommended) — Most will say "Release to refresh" in this stateSSPullToRefreshViewStateLoading
(recommended) — The view is loadingSSPullToRefreshViewStateClosing
(optional) — The view has finished loading and is animating closed
You may also optionally implement this method:
- (void)setLastUpdatedAt:(NSDate *)date withPullToRefreshView:(SSPullToRefreshView *)view
Download the source files or add it as a git submodule. Here's how to add it as a submodule:
$ cd YourProject
$ git submodule add https://github.com/samsoffes/sspulltorefresh.git Vendor/SSPullToRefresh
Add all of the Objective-C files to your project.
SSPullToRefresh uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). (I think you should use ARC by the way.) If your project doesn't use ARC, you will need to set the -fobjc-arc
compiler flag on all of the SSPullToRefresh source files. To do this in Xcode, go to your active target and select the "Build Phases" tab. In the "Compiler Flags" column, set -fobjc-arc
for each of the SSPullToRefresh source files.
If you are using CocoaPods than just add next line to your Podfile
:
dependency 'SSPullToRefresh'
Now run pod install
to install the dependency.
I took some inspiration from PullToRefreshView by chpwn, which is based on EGOTableViewPullRefresh, which is inspired by Tweetie's pull to refresh by Loren Brichter. And around we go.
Enjoy.