iOS 7 UIRefreshControl tintColor not working for beginRefreshing

Question

I\'m trying to set a tintColor on my UIRefreshControl (building on iOS 7). I enabled refreshing for the tableViewController in storyboard, then in my ViewController vi

Answer 1

@william-george's answer set me in the right direction, but was giving me weird autolayout animation issues.

So here's the version that worked for me:

- (void)programaticallyRefresh {
    // Hack necessary to keep UIRefreshControl's tintColor
    [self.scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, -1.0f) animated:NO];
    [self.scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, -self.refreshControl.frame.size.height) animated:YES];
    [self.refreshControl beginRefreshing];
    [self refresh];
}

-refresh is the method tied to the UIRefreshControl.

Answer 2

When I set

tableView.refreshControl = refreshControl 

several times where refreshControl is a different instance each time, I had the issue when refresh control color was always black and setting tint color to a different value didn't help.

So that I set tableView.refreshControl = refreshControl only once and when I need to hide it I set alpha value, more details in this thread:

How do I "hide" a UIRefreshControl?

Answer 3

Using UIView.animate didn't work for me on Swift 4.

Here's what I ended up using

extension UIRefreshControl {
    func beginRefreshingManually(with scrollView: UIScrollView, isFirstTime: Bool) {
        if self.isRefreshing { return }

        // Workaround: If we call setContentOffset on the first time that the screen loads
        // we get a black refreshControl with the wrong size.
        // We could just set the scrollView.contentOffset everytime, but it does not animate the scrolling.
        // So for every other time, we call the setContentOffset animated.
        if isFirstTime {
            scrollView.contentOffset = CGPoint(x: 0, y: -self.frame.size.height)
        } else {
            scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: -self.frame.size.height), animated: true)
        }
        self.beginRefreshing()
    }
}

Answer 4

Solution for the tintColor issue: add this in viewDidLoad

[self.refreshControl setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[self.refreshControl tintColorDidChange];

Now you have a white indicator when you call beginRefresh manually.

Answer 5

i found some Work Around i hope it works for you

 [_TBL setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0,_TBL.contentOffset.y-_refreshControl.frame.size.height) animated:YES];
[_refreshControl performSelector:@selector(beginRefreshing) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.25];
[self getLatestUpdates];

Answer 6

Set manually content offset for your tableView/scrollView before begin spinning:

tableView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: tableView.contentOffset.y - (refreshControl.frame.size.height)), animated: true)
refreshControl.beginRefreshing()
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