SwiftUI Pull to Refresh Support

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Created Jul ’20

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Hi,

Are there plans to add Pull to Refresh support to List or ScrollView in iOS14?

This is a large gap and the workarounds create other issues.

Wrapping all my swiftui view content in a UIScrollView ViewRepresentable wrapper (leveraging the refreshControl property of ScrollView) causes other issues. Specifically NavigationLinks driven by Binding<Idenfiable> don’t present (presumably the nesting within a UIHostingController to sit within the UIScrollView breaks this somehow).
Refresh controls usually render above the Large Navigation bar titles which aren’t exposed as Views. This means with approaches that use Preferences and geometry readers can’t get an accurate scroll offset (because large titles shrink and grow as the user scrolls)

I can probably work around this by doing all my navigation in UIKit, calling back from Views to some parent object (eg Navigation Coordinator) who can then manage pushing View controllers that wrap SwiftUI views in hosting controllers. But that is not ideal.

Has anyone had any luck with a Pull to refresh solution in SwiftUI with navigation? (other than introspecting the View tree for secret UITableViews etc)

Answer 1

purkylin OP

Jul ’20

I also want to know

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BrunoMarcal OP

Jul ’20

I also want to know

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kimhandole OP

Jul ’20

I also want to know

Answer 4

onehitwonder OP

Jul ’20

Please add pull to refresh to SwiftUI

Answer 5

J2K05 OP

Jul ’20

This is a necessary feature that SwiftUI must have!!

Answer 6

BabyJ OP

Aug ’20

SwiftUI must have everything UIKit and AppKit have, and more!

Answer 7

wpcawe OP

Aug ’20

This is absolutely must feature, please implement as top priority.

Answer 8

recursion OP

Aug ’20

I have had success with the following native implementation from SwiftUI Lab: https://gist.github.com/swiftui-lab/3de557a513fbdb2d8fced41e40347e01

A few modifications had to be made including changes to use the new ProgressView etc.

Answer 9

liweiip OP

Aug ’20

I also want to know

Answer 10

rredxx OP

Sep ’20

I wonder why this is not included in SwiftUI !!! What were the developers thinking ?

Answer 11

Richiec OP

Sep ’20

I'm on iOS 13 and Xcode 11, so it may be different. I haven't seen the issues around navigation links described in the OP.

Overall, there's a couple of options as a starting point to play with:

https://github.com/siteline/SwiftUIRefresh uses UIKit to provide a fairly simple way of controlling the refresh action (but sounds like the approach described in the OP that creates problems with navigation links)

https://gist.github.com/swiftui-lab/3de557a513fbdb2d8fced41e40347e01 is a pure SwiftUI implementation, but doesn't work on some views (including a list view in NavigationView)

Answer 12

peterfromberlin OP

Sep ’20

I also want to know

Answer 13

nikitaame OP

Sep ’20

I also want to know

Answer 14

NielsSoerensen OP

Sep ’20

We need this now

Answer 15

dnbespalov OP

Oct ’20

I concur, the pull to refresh is essential for our app as well. At the moment we're assessing whether to switch back to UIKit because of the issues with Pull to refresh implementation (and crashes it brings), and because of other issues we faced (and most probably will face) until new SwiftUI will be more stable and new iOS versions will be installed by most of our users.

Answer 16

letadas12 OP

Oct ’20

I hope they already working on it...

Answer 17

y5junkie OP

Oct ’20

Yes this is a big issue, going to have to revert to old school UIs with reload buttons..

Answer 18

cscottgilbert OP

Oct ’20

I also want to know.

Answer 19

webbguyatwork OP

Oct ’20

I found this: swiftui-lab.com/scrollview-pull-to-refresh

So far, this is the closest I've gotten to a pull to refresh that works. I was able to adapt it for my needs in one project.

That being said, there only seem to be a small handful of examples of people attempting this on their own, none of which work flawlessly. I'm really hoping to see native pull to refresh added simply so we're all doing it in a consistent and preferred manner.

Answer 20

wpcawe OP

Oct ’20

It's very difficult to find working solution. Apple please address this feature asap

Answer 21

Citan OP

Oct ’20

Same here

Answer 22

LowPan OP

Nov ’20

I also need this

Answer 23

csmac3144 OP

Dec ’20

Strange oversight.

Just a simple:
onPullToRefresh {

}

Answer 24

inceptor17 OP

Dec ’20

This is much-needed! I really hope they do this soon.

Answer 25

ChristofZ OP

Jan ’21

I would also appreciate a native Pull-to-refresh implementation. @Apple: Any plans to add this anytime soon?