Pull To Refresh is a UI interaction wherein a user pulls down on a scrolling view or list, beyond the upper bounds of the view, and releases it in order to refresh the contents of that view or list.
Pull To Refresh is a UI interaction wherein a user pulls down on a scrolling view or list, beyond the upper bounds of the view, and releases it in order to refresh the contents of that view or list.
This interaction has been used in many published apps, mainly for mobile devices, and has become one of the most widely used methods of allowing a user to refresh their current view.
Pull To Refresh libraries:
- Android-PullToRefresh - Implementation of the Pull-to-Refresh UI Pattern for Android
- Three20 - Three20 is an Objective-C library for iPhone developers (contains a pull to reload component)
- EGOTableViewPullRefresh - A similar control to the pull down to refresh control created by atebits in Tweetie 2
- ODRefreshControl - A pull down to refresh control like the one in Apple's iOS6 Mail App