Is there a Interface Builder-esque way to get that slick "pull down to refresh" menu I see on the Facebook iPhone app?

Question

I've seen this in other apps too, so I'm wondering whether there's some canned functionality I'm missing. Is there an interface for the "pull down to refresh" action? If not, what's that called so I can Google it?

Answer 1

No. You should look at EGOTableViewPullRefresh on GitHub.

Answer 2

It is not built-in functionality but you can grab the open source version from the guys who originally implemented it :-)

http://github.com/enormego/EGOTableViewPullRefresh

Answer 3

Just to round out the answers - you can make a table view in IB, put it in a view, and then change the type to be something like an EGOTableViewPullRefresh table. Then you just set an outlet for it and implement the delegate methods in the view controller.

In fact I find it very handy to use table views as a subview of a view in a normal view controller. The UITableViewController only provides a handful of convenience mechanisms.