How to implement "Swipe down to refresh" like in new GMail app

android android-listview pull-to-refresh
Reactgular picture Reactgular · Jun 10, 2013 · Viewed 44k times · Source

Google release the new Gmail app with an alternate way to handle pull down to refresh.

Instead of showing the started hidden row that is pulled down. Gmail displays an animated message overtop of the action bar.

The message includes an animated horizontal line.

Is this a standard feature of the Android SDK? I can't find anything in the action bar API that would do this.

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Answer

Booger picture Booger · Mar 29, 2014

Google has released support for this directly in the SDK. I am not sure of what version you need to support (that may be an issue).

Check out the official SDK feature info here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout.html

If you are able to use the SDK one, you will be better off, even Chris Banes wrote a post, suggesting the same.

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