HTPullToRefresh alternatives and similar libraries
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CBStoreHouseRefreshControl
Fully customizable pull-to-refresh control inspired by Storehouse iOS app -
ESPullToRefresh
#Busy Re-Building....# An easy way to use pull to refresh and infinite scrolling in Swift. Pod 'ESPullToRefresh' -
PullToBounce
Animated "Pull To Refresh" Library for UIScrollView. Inspired by https://dribbble.com/shots/1797373-Pull-Down-To-Refresh -
UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh
Add PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView with just simple code -
KafkaRefresh
Animated, customizable, and flexible pull-to-refresh framework for faster and easier iOS development. -
BOZPongRefreshControl
A pull-down-to-refresh control for iOS that plays pong, originally created for the MHacks III iOS app -
PullToRefreshCoreText
PullToRefresh extension for all UIScrollView type classes with animated text drawing style -
GIFRefreshControl
GIFRefreshControl is a pull to refresh that supports GIF images as track animations.
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README
This is a fork from the famous SVPullToRefresh pod with 2 additional functionalities:
- [x] Can add multiple pull-to-refresh views into one single UIScrollView
- [x] Support both vertical and horizontal pull to refresh
Installation
Add pod 'HTPullToRefresh'
to your Podfile (remove the SVPullToRefresh
pod if you had added it before)
Usage
(see sample Xcode project in /Demo
)
Adding Pull to Refresh
If you don't specify the position, it will add to top by default
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
}];
or if you want it from the bottom
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
} position:SVPullToRefreshPositionBottom];
or from the left
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
} position:SVPullToRefreshPositionLeft];
or right?
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
} position:SVPullToRefreshPositionRight];
or add multiple pull-to-refresh views all at once
// add top
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
} position:SVPullToRefreshPositionBottom];
// then add bottom
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
//do stuff
} position:SVPullToRefreshPositionLeft];
Retrieve Pull to Refresh View
Retrieve first pull-to-refresh view:
tableView.pullToRefreshView
Retrieve pull-torefresh view at a specific position:
[tableView pullToRefreshViewAtPosition:SVPullToRefreshPositionBottom];
Since we have multiple pull-to-refresh views inside a UIScrollView, we can retrieve all of them by:
tableView.pullToRefreshViews
Customization
The pull to refresh view can be customized using the following properties/methods:
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *arrowColor;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor *textColor;
@property (nonatomic, readwrite) UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle activityIndicatorViewStyle;
- (void)setTitle:(NSString *)title forState:(SVPullToRefreshState)state;
- (void)setSubtitle:(NSString *)subtitle forState:(SVPullToRefreshState)state;
- (void)setCustomView:(UIView *)view forState:(SVPullToRefreshState)state;
For instance, you would set the arrowColor
property using:
tableView.pullToRefreshView.arrowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
Adding Infinite Scrolling
[tableView addInfiniteScrollingWithActionHandler:^{
// append data to data source, insert new cells at the end of table view
// call [tableView.infiniteScrollingView stopAnimating] when done
}];
If you’d like to programmatically trigger the loading (for instance in viewDidAppear:
), you can do so with:
[tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
You can temporarily hide the infinite scrolling view by setting the showsInfiniteScrolling
property:
tableView.showsInfiniteScrolling = NO;
Customization
The infinite scrolling view can be customized using the following methods:
- (void)setActivityIndicatorViewStyle:(UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle)activityIndicatorViewStyle;
- (void)setCustomView:(UIView *)view forState:(SVInfiniteScrollingState)state;
You can access these properties through your scroll view's infiniteScrollingView
property.
Under the hood
SVPullToRefresh extends UIScrollView
by adding new public methods as well as a dynamic properties.
It uses key-value observing to track the scrollView's contentOffset
.
Credits
SVPullToRefresh is brought to you by Sam Vermette and contributors to the project. If you have feature suggestions or bug reports, feel free to help out by sending pull requests or by creating new issues. If you're using SVPullToRefresh in your project, attribution would be nice.
Big thanks to @seb_morel for his Demistifying the Objective-C runtime talk which really helped for this project.
Hat tip to Loren Brichter for inventing pull-to-refresh.