Android SwipeRefreshLayout Project Structure In this tutorial we’ll develop an application that consists of a ListView that on swipe down, refreshes the screen and shuffles the list rows. We can override this method according to our needs. On swiping down this listener is triggered and the OnRefresh() method is called. This class consists of one important listener that is OnRefreshListener. Before this layout was available in the support library, we had to resort to creating and detecting custom swipe down gestures to refresh let’s say a ListView. This is pretty common in the Facebook Newsfeed screen.

The basic need for a SwipeRefreshLayout is to allow the users to refresh the screen manually. It can be either a ScrollView, ListView or RecyclerView. Android SwipeRefreshLayoutĪndroid SwipeRefreshLayout is a ViewGroup that can hold only one scrollable child. This Android Material Design UI pattern is very commonly seen in many applications like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and implemented using Android SwipeRefreshLayout. In this tutorial we’ll discuss and implement Android Swipe Down to Refresh or Android Pull to Refresh the screen.

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