Avoid SwipeRefresh while fastScrolling in android

android, android-listview, fastscroll

Solution

I just looked into the documentation of the `SwipeRefreshLayout` and I think they mention what you are looking for:

... If the listener determines there should not be a refresh, it must call `setRefreshing(false)` to cancel any visual indication of a refresh. If an activity wishes to show just the progress animation, it should call `setRefreshing(true)`. To disable the gesture and progress animation, call `setEnabled(false)` on the view.

So you have a few options, I would first try playing around with `setEnabled()` or `setRefreshing()`, but to properly use those methods we first need to be able to detect if the `ListView` is fast scrolling. There is no listener or anything for fast scrolling but you can get the state through reflection! Based on this excellent and seriously underrated answer I have written a `FastScrollListener` which can be used just like a `OnScrollListener`:

this.listView.setFastScrollEnabled(true);
this.listView.setOnScrollListener(new FastScrollListener(this.listView) {

    @Override
    protected void onFastScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, FastScrollState state) {
        // This line disabled the SwipeRefreshLayout  
        // whenever the user is fast scrolling
        swipeRefreshLayout.setEnabled(state != FastScrollState.DRAGGING);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFastScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {

    }
});

You could also try calling `setRefreshing()` instead of `setEnabled()` if `setEnabled()` doesn't work.

And here is the code of the `FastScrollListener`:

public abstract class FastScrollListener implements AbsListView.OnScrollListener {

    private final int STATE_DRAGGING;
    private final int STATE_VISIBLE;
    private final int STATE_NONE;

    public enum FastScrollState {
        DRAGGING,
        VISIBLE,
        NONE,
        UNKNOWN
    }

    private FastScrollState fastScrollState = FastScrollState.UNKNOWN;
    private Field stateField;
    private Object mFastScroller;

    public FastScrollListener(AbsListView listView) {
        try {
            final Field fastScrollerField = AbsListView.class.getDeclaredField("mFastScroller");
            fastScrollerField.setAccessible(true);
            mFastScroller = fastScrollerField.get(listView);

            final Field stateDraggingField = mFastScroller.getClass().getDeclaredField("STATE_DRAGGING");
            stateDraggingField.setAccessible(true);
            STATE_DRAGGING = stateDraggingField.getInt(mFastScroller);

            final Field stateVisibleField = mFastScroller.getClass().getDeclaredField("STATE_VISIBLE");
            stateVisibleField.setAccessible(true);
            STATE_VISIBLE = stateVisibleField.getInt(mFastScroller);

            final Field stateNoneField = mFastScroller.getClass().getDeclaredField("STATE_NONE");
            stateNoneField.setAccessible(true);
            STATE_NONE = stateNoneField.getInt(mFastScroller);

            stateField = mFastScroller.getClass().getDeclaredField("mState");
            stateField.setAccessible(true);
            fastScrollState = getFastScrollState();

        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Could not find required fields for fast scroll detection!", e);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Could not find required fields for fast scroll detection!", e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
        updateFastScrollState(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
        updateFastScrollState(view);
        updateFastScroll(view, firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount);
    }

    private void updateFastScrollState(AbsListView view) {
        if (stateField != null) {
            final FastScrollState state = getFastScrollState();
            if (fastScrollState != state) {
                fastScrollState = state;
                onFastScrollStateChanged(view, state);
            }
        }
    }

    private void updateFastScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount) {
        if(fastScrollState == FastScrollState.DRAGGING) {
            onFastScroll(view, firstVisibleItem, visibleItemCount, totalItemCount);
        }
    }

    private FastScrollState getFastScrollState() {

        try {
            final int state = stateField.getInt(mFastScroller);

            if (state == STATE_DRAGGING) {
                return FastScrollState.DRAGGING;
            }

            if (state == STATE_VISIBLE) {
                return FastScrollState.VISIBLE;
            }

            if (state == STATE_NONE) {
                return FastScrollState.NONE;
            }

            return FastScrollState.UNKNOWN;
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Could not read fast scroll state!", e);
        }
    }

    protected abstract void onFastScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, FastScrollState state);

    protected abstract void onFastScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount);
}

I hope I could help you and if you have any further questions please feel free to ask!

EDIT: Try this, but I doubt it will work:

@Override
protected void onFastScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, FastScrollState state) {
    boolean enable = false;
    if (getListView().getChildCount() > 0) {
        boolean firstItemVisible = getListView().getFirstVisiblePosition() == 0;
        boolean topOfFirstItemVisible = getListView().getChildAt(0).getTop() == 0;
        enable = firstItemVisible && topOfFirstItemVisible;
    }
    refreshLayout.setEnabled(enable);
}

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