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ADF Mobile : Implementing the "Pull to Refresh" Pattern

One very common pattern in Mobile Apps is the use of "pull" to refresh a list of data in an App. For one of my projects I suggested to use this pattern and I had to figure out a way to implement this in ADF Mobile. In this post I show you a way to implement this. If you are only interested in the refresh part, you might want to skip the first 5 steps. These explain in short the webservice and the basic ADF Mobile app. From step 6 on I explain how to implement the pattern. 1. The webservice For this example I use a simple webservice that returns a List of Locations. The webservice is a service enabled Application Module. I simply created Business Component (EO and VO) on the Locations table from the HR schema. I exposed the Locations view object as AllLocations, and added a method called getCurrentCount() on the Application Module Impl class.  This method simply invokes the getEstimatedRowCount() to find out the number of rows. Next I created a new Service Interface on