How does one implement pull-to-refresh with a LongListSelector in Windows Phone 8?

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esilver picture esilver · Dec 13, 2012 · Viewed 6.9k times · Source

I am writing a new WP8 app using the off-the-shelf LongListSelector that is shipped in the Microsoft.Phone.Controls assembly. Can anyone provide a code example that implements pull-to-refresh, originally made popular by Tweetie for iPhone and now common on iOS and Android? The existing examples use non-standard controls and I'd like to maintain my use of LongListSelector in WP8.

EDIT

I have found a good answer on StackOverflow describing the Twitter sample and how to do this in more detail:

Continuous Pagination with LongListSelector

Answer

Miguel Rochefort picture Miguel Rochefort · Dec 13, 2012

You do not.

Pull-to-refresh is not a standard Windows Phone interaction, and you therefore should not implement it.

No native/first-party Windows Phone application use this functionality, and almost no third-party application does either. There is a reason for that.

To refresh the content of a page (or in your case, a LongListSelector), you should use a refresh ApplicationBacIconButton, just like in the Mail app. That's the standard and preferred way to manage refreshes.

Windows Phone is not Android, nor is it iOS. Keep that in mind when designing an application for it.

It is not a zoo, there are rules.

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