UIRefreshControl - beginRefreshing not working when UITableViewController is inside UINavigationController

Question

I\'ve setup a UIRefreshControl in my UITableViewController (which is inside a UINavigationController) and it works as expected (i.e. pull down fires the correct event). Howe

Answer 1

Here is Swift 3 and later extension that shows spinner as well as animate it.

import UIKit
extension UIRefreshControl {

func beginRefreshingWithAnimation() {

    DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.05) {

        if let scrollView = self.superview as? UIScrollView {
            scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: scrollView.contentOffset.y - self.frame.height), animated: true)
          }
        self.beginRefreshing()
      }
   }
}

Answer 2

For Swift 5, for me the only thing missing was to call refreshControl.sendActions(.valueChanged). I made an extension to make it more cleaner.

extension UIRefreshControl {

    func beginRefreshingManually() {
        if let scrollView = superview as? UIScrollView {
            scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: scrollView.contentOffset.y - frame.height), animated: false)
        }
        beginRefreshing()
        sendActions(for: .valueChanged)
    }

}

Answer 3

I use the same technique for show user "data is update" visual sign. A result user bring app from background and feeds/lists will be update with UI like users pull tables to refresh himself. My version contain 3 things

1) Who send "wake up"

- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application {
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:kNotificationHaveToResetAllPages object:nil];
}

2) Observer in UIViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(forceUpdateData) name:kNotificationHaveToWakeUp:nil];
}

3)The protocol

#pragma mark - ForcedDataUpdateProtocol

- (void)forceUpdateData {
    self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointZero;

    if (self.refreshControl) {
        [self.refreshControl beginRefreshing];
        [self.tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, -self.refreshControl.frame.size.height) animated:YES];
        [self.refreshControl performSelector:@selector(endRefreshing) withObject:nil afterDelay:1];
    }
}

Answer 4

It's works perfect to me:

Swift 3:

self.tableView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: -self.refreshControl!.frame.size.height - self.topLayoutGuide.length), animated: true)

Answer 5

tested on Swift 5

use this in viewDidLoad()

fileprivate func showRefreshLoader() {
    DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.05) {
        self.tableView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: self.tableView.contentOffset.y - (self.refreshControl.frame.size.height)), animated: true)
        self.refreshControl.beginRefreshing() 
    }
}

Answer 6

Here's a Swift extension using the strategies described above.

extension UIRefreshControl {
    func beginRefreshingManually() {
        if let scrollView = superview as? UIScrollView {
            scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: scrollView.contentOffset.y - frame.height), animated: true)
        }
        beginRefreshing()
    }
}