How to add refresh control to collection view large titles navigation bar in iOS 11?

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funkenstrahlen picture funkenstrahlen · Jul 6, 2017 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

According to Apple the refresh control should be part of the large title navigation bar in iOS 11.

The refresh control is part of the navigation bar (on pull to refresh) when I enabled the refresh control in my storyboard for a UITableViewController.

refresh control with large titles

I can not do this in storyboard for all other views like UICollectionViewController. When I add a refresh control in code as a subview it is not part of the navigation bar:

refreshControl = UIRefreshControl()
collectionView?.addSubview(refreshControl)

It looks like this though:

looks like this though

How can I add a refresh control to my custom scroll view like UICollectionViewController in such a way that the refresh control is displayed in the navigation bar when large titles is used?

Answer

Martin picture Martin · Jul 27, 2017

As of iOS 10, UITableView and UICollectionView has refreshControl property.

So, instead of:

tableView.addSubview(refreshControl)

you do:

tableView.refreshControl = refreshControl

and this should work for new big headers in iOS 11.

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