IPhone Pull Down Update as Tweetie

Question

I am trying to find an example of placing an element above a table view outside a normal scrollable region. How should I do it? An example is what Tweetie 2 for iPhone does to update tweets.

Sample code will be very helpful.

Answer 1

I found the answer to my question, for everyone who is interested.

EGOTableViewPullRefresh

I tried this solution and it works great! This is almost identical to the Tweetie Pull Down update.

Answer 2

Here's an alternative to EGOTableViewPullRefresh:

http://blog.leahculver.com/2010/12/iphone-pull-to-refresh.html

The source is available on github here:

https://github.com/leah/PullToRefresh

This is a little easier to use from a developers point of view, although in the end I went with EGOTableViewPullRefresh, since I preferred what it looked like.

Answer 3

Starting with iOS 6.0, there is a standard control called UIRefreshControl in sdk. apple doc here

Answer 4

Here's what you can do with iOS 6 and later:

- (void)viewDidLoad { // other initialization self.refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [self.refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(myRefresh) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; } 

Your update method:

 - (void)myRefresh { // get refreshed data for table view } 

You finish the update in reloadData:

 - (void)reloadData { [self.tableView reloadData]; // End the refreshing if (self.refreshControl) { [self.refreshControl endRefreshing]; } } 

Then you are all set!

Answer 5

You are looking for a UIRefreshControl that is available for every UITableViewController - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIRefreshControl_class/Reference/Reference.html