New iOS control: Pull-to-sort control for UITableViews

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7 pointszogieosagie3 comments

I really dislike this UI concept. It is completely non-discoverable and when paired with "pull to refresh" it is hard to guess what the pull down gesture do.

Drawer is a better concept IMHO - it informs the user that there are some actions and the user can check them out to see what they do.

Or maybe I am wrong and people will love to pull down every list just to discover what is hidden there.

PTR is pretty common on iOS, so users are pretty well trained to do just that. It's rare enough on Android that it's usually a bad idea.

On the other side of the coin, you have the Menu button on many Android devices that pops up ancillary actions that don't fit on the screen. I can't tell you how many bug reports I get for functionality that I've buried in there, but if I was paid a dollar for every one, I'd be rich. And this is a control that has been around for five years...

I think it'd work fine if there were some persistent button/badge that showed the current sort scheme that also acted as the anchor for the pull action.

From the video it seems it'd feel like you're shifting gears in an automatic car.

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