Swipe down to refresh listview android

Last updated on March 13th, 2020 at 12:07 pm

Swipe down refresh is very latest in most of apps like facebook, twitter and lot’s of other great app in play store. In this post i show how to create that feature in your app. Some of my last i also explain how to implement SwipeRefresh but there are some issue in it :-p so i update and fix all that in this.

Code:

Step 1 Create new project in android studio or open your project where you want to implement swipe refresh.

Step 2 Now open your activity_main.xml or file that file where you want to implement this.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
        tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout
        android:id="@+id/activity_main_swipe_refresh_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/activity_main_listview"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            >
        </ListView>

    </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Step 3 Now open your Mainactivity.java file where we get our main work done.

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.widget.AbsListView;
import android.widget.Adapter;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;

import java.util.ArrayList;


public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
    ListView mListView;
    SwipeRefreshLayout mSwipeRefreshLayout;
    Adapter mAdapter;
    ArrayList<String> listItems;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mSwipeRefreshLayout = (SwipeRefreshLayout) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_swipe_refresh_layout);
        mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_listview);
        listItems = new ArrayList<String>();
        listItems.add("hi");
        listItems.add("Aneh");
        listItems.add("love");
        listItems.add("think");
        listItems.add("code");


        final ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, listItems);
        mListView.setAdapter(adapter);
        mListView.setOnScrollListener(new AbsListView.OnScrollListener() {
            @Override
            public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
                boolean enable = false;
                if (mListView != null && mListView.getChildCount() > 0) {
                    // check if the first item of the list is visible
                    boolean firstItemVisible = mListView.getFirstVisiblePosition() == 0;
                    // check if the top of the first item is visible
                    boolean topOfFirstItemVisible = mListView.getChildAt(0).getTop() == 0;
                    // enabling or disabling the refresh layout
                    enable = firstItemVisible && topOfFirstItemVisible;
                }
                mSwipeRefreshLayout.setEnabled(enable);
            }
        });

        mSwipeRefreshLayout.setColorSchemeResources(R.color.orange, R.color.green, R.color.blue);
        mSwipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(new SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener() {
            @Override
            public void onRefresh() {
               //handling swipe refresh
                new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        mSwipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(false);

                        listItems.add("hereee");
                        mListView.setAdapter(adapter);
                    }
                }, 2000);
            }
        });
    }
}

In above code i did not sync data from server but it is very easy to implement hope you can do that thing easily.  Hope this help you.

Happy coding 🙂