Refresher

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The Refresher provides pull-to-refresh functionality on a content component. Place the ion-refresher as the first child of your ion-content element.

Pages can then listen to the refresher's various output events. The refresh output event is fired when the user has pulled down far enough to kick off the refreshing process. Once the async operation has completed and the refreshing should end, call complete().

Note: Do not wrap the ion-refresher in a *ngIf. It will not render properly this way. Please use the enabled property instead to display or hide the refresher.

Directive

selector: ion-refresher

Usage

<ion-content>

  <ion-refresher (refresh)="doRefresh($event)">
    <ion-refresher-content></ion-refresher-content>
  </ion-refresher>

</ion-content>

@Page({...})
export class NewsFeedPage {

  doRefresh(refresher) {
    console.log('Begin async operation', refresher);

    setTimeout(() => {
      console.log('Async operation has ended');
      refresher.complete();
    }, 2000);
  }

}

Refresher Content

By default, Ionic provides the pulling icon and refreshing spinner that looks best for the platform the user is on. However, you can change the default icon and spinner, along with adding text for each state by adding properties to the child ion-refresher-content component.

<ion-content>

  <ion-refresher (refresh)="doRefresh($event)">
    <ion-refresher-content
      pullingIcon="arrow-dropdown"
      pullingText="Pull to refresh"
      refreshingSpinner="circles"
      refreshingText="Refreshing...">
    </ion-refresher-content>
  </ion-refresher>

</ion-content>

Further Customizing Refresher Content

The ion-refresher component holds the refresh logic. It requires a child component in order to display the content. Ionic uses ion-refresher-content by default. This component displays the refresher and changes the look depending on the refresher's state. Separating these components allows developers to create their own refresher content components. You could replace our default content with custom SVG or CSS animations.

Instance Members

state

The current state which the refresher is in. The refresher’s states include:

• inactive - The refresher is not being pulled down or refreshing and is currently hidden.
• pulling - The user is actively pulling down the refresher, but has not reached the point yet that if the user lets go, it’ll refresh.
• cancelling - The user pulled down the refresher and let go, but did not pull down far enough to kick off the refreshing state. After letting go, the refresher is in the cancelling state while it is closing, and will go back to the inactive state once closed.
• ready - The user has pulled down the refresher far enough that if they let go, it’ll begin the refreshing state.
• refreshing - The refresher is actively waiting on the async operation to end. Once the refresh handler calls complete() it will begin the completing state.
• completing - The refreshing state has finished and the refresher is in the process of closing itself. Once closed, the refresher will go back to the inactive state.

startY

The Y coordinate of where the user started to the pull down the content.

currentY

The current touch or mouse event’s Y coordinate.

deltaY

The distance between the start of the pull and the current touch or mouse event’s Y coordinate.

progress

A number representing how far down the user has pulled. The number 0 represents the user hasn’t pulled down at all. The number 1, and anything greater than 1, represents that the user has pulled far enough down that when they let go then the refresh will happen. If they let go and the number is less than 1, then the refresh will not happen, and the content will return to it’s original position.

complete()

Call complete() when your async operation has completed. For example, the refreshing state is while the app is performing an asynchronous operation, such as receiving more data from an AJAX request. Once the data has been received, you then call this method to signify that the refreshing has completed and to close the refresher. This method also changes the refresher’s state from refreshing to completing.

cancel()

Changes the refresher’s state from refreshing to cancelling.

Input Properties

Output Events