These UIScrollView categories makes it super easy to add pull-to-refresh and infinite scrolling fonctionalities to any UIScrollView (or any of its subclass). Instead of relying on delegates and/or subclassing UIViewController
, SVPullToRefresh uses the Objective-C runtime to add the following 3 methods to UIScrollView
:
- (void)addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:(void (^)(void))actionHandler;
- (void)addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:(void (^)(void))actionHandler position:(SVPullToRefreshPosition)position;
- (void)addInfiniteScrollingWithActionHandler:(void (^)(void))actionHandler;
Add pod 'SVPullToRefresh'
to your Podfile or pod 'SVPullToRefresh', :head
if you're feeling adventurous.
Important note if your project doesn't use ARC: you must add the -fobjc-arc
compiler flag to UIScrollView+SVPullToRefresh.m
and UIScrollView+SVInfiniteScrolling.m
in Target Settings > Build Phases > Compile Sources.
- Drag the
SVPullToRefresh/SVPullToRefresh
folder into your project. - Add the QuartzCore framework to your project.
- Import
UIScrollView+SVPullToRefresh.h
and/orUIScrollView+SVInfiniteScrolling.h
(see sample Xcode project in /Demo
)
[tableView addPullToRefreshWithActionHandler:^{
// prepend data to dataSource, insert cells at top of table view
// call [tableView.pullToRefreshView stopAnimating] when done
}];
If you’d like to programmatically trigger the refresh (for instance in viewDidAppear:
), you can do so with:
[tableView triggerPullToRefresh];
You can temporarily hide the pull to refresh view by setting the showsPullToRefresh
property:
tableView.showsPullToRefresh = NO;
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;
You can access these properties through your scroll view's pullToRefreshView
property.
For instance, you would set the arrowColor
property using:
tableView.pullToRefreshView.arrowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[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;
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.
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
.
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.