iOS 7 UIRefreshControl tintColor not working for beginRefreshing

Question

I\'m trying to set a tintColor on my UIRefreshControl (building on iOS 7). I enabled refreshing for the tableViewController in storyboard, then in my ViewController vi

Answer 1

Using UIView.animate didn't work for me on Swift 4.

Here's what I ended up using

extension UIRefreshControl {
    func beginRefreshingManually(with scrollView: UIScrollView, isFirstTime: Bool) {
        if self.isRefreshing { return }

        // Workaround: If we call setContentOffset on the first time that the screen loads
        // we get a black refreshControl with the wrong size.
        // We could just set the scrollView.contentOffset everytime, but it does not animate the scrolling.
        // So for every other time, we call the setContentOffset animated.
        if isFirstTime {
            scrollView.contentOffset = CGPoint(x: 0, y: -self.frame.size.height)
        } else {
            scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: -self.frame.size.height), animated: true)
        }
        self.beginRefreshing()
    }
}