Question

There have been many requests for a push to refresh widget or library on android, even if some people consider it’s not such a good ui pattern (I must say I belong to this camp).

But what about “pull to refresh” or to be more precise : the mechanism used in gmail for android 4. When you reach the bottom of the list, you get the last element. But if you scroll up again (push) then a new list item appears with a infinite progress bar and the next mails will load and fill up the list.

Other android coders and UI designers have noticed that, but I can’t find any good debate about this pattern, neither can I find an implementation of this feature to fill a list.

Has anyone seen an interesting solution to this problem ?

Answer 1

here is two helpful libraries:

• https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh
• https://github.com/chrisbanes/Android-PullToRefresh