ActionBar-PullToRefresh

ActionBar-PullToRefresh provides an easy way to add a modern version of the pull-to-refresh interaction to your application.

Please note that this is not an update to Android-PullToRefresh, this has been created from new. You should think of this as Android-PullToRefresh's younger, leaner cousin.

This is a Preview

Please note that this is currently in a preview state. This basically means that the API is not fixed and you should expect changes between releases.

Todo

As this is a preview also means that function is missing. See the Todo page for more info on what needs to be added.

Sample

Eventually the sample will be available to download on Google Play. As we're not stable yet you can find the APK here.

Supported Views

ActionBar-PullToRefresh has in-built support for:

AbsListView derivatives (ListView & GridView).
ScrollView

If the View you want to use is not listed above, you can easily add support by providing a Delegate. See the 'Delegates' section below for more info.

Usage

There are two ways to use this library, programmatically or declaratively.

Programmatically

You just need to create an instance of PullToRefreshAttacher, giving it the Activity and the View for which will scroll.

private PullToRefreshAttacher mPullToRefreshHelper;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        
    // Get View for which the user will scroll…
    View scrollableView = findViewById(R.id.blah); 

    mPullToRefreshHelper = new PullToRefreshAttacher(this, scrollableView);
    mPullToRefreshHelper.setRefreshListener(this);
}

See the ListView sample for more info.

Declaratively

Here you just wrap your scrollable view in a PullToRefreshLayout in your layout XML:

<uk.co.senab.actionbarpulltorefresh.library.PullToRefreshLayout
    android:id="@+id/ptr_layout"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:ptr="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    ptr:refreshScrollDistance="0.75">

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:scrollbarStyle="outsideInset">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/filler_text" />

    </ScrollView>

</uk.co.senab.actionbarpulltorefresh.library.PullToRefreshLayout>

In you Activity/Fragment you then do the following to retrieve the generated PullToRefreshAttacher

// Retrieve PullToRefreshAttacher from PullToRefreshLayout
mPullToRefreshAttacher = PullToRefreshLayout.getAttacher(this, R.id.ptr_layout);

// Set Listener to know when a refresh should be started
mPullToRefreshAttacher.setRefreshListener(this);

See the ScrollView sample for more info.

Customisation

Delegates

TODO. See the GridView sample for more info for now.

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