VisualEffectView vs MJRefresh

VisualEffectView

Dynamic blur background view with tint color (UIVisualEffectView subclass) 📱 (by efremidze)

UI Uivisualeffectview Blur Tint Effects Uiblureffect Swift iOS Apple

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MJRefresh

An easy way to use pull-to-refresh. (by CoderMJLee)

UI Pull to Refresh Objective-C Refresh

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VisualEffectView		MJRefresh
	Project
1	Mentions	-
1,088	Stars	13,771
-	Growth	-
4.1	Activity	5.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Swift	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	MIT License

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VisualEffectView

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Are there any good alternatives to have a UIView with a blur effect AND custom tint color without calling private APIs?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 14 Apr 2022

So I discovered VisualEffectView but of course it uses private APIs in order to work. Has anyone ever had any problem summiting an app using this method or know about a better alternative? I'm using UIKit.

MJRefresh

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing VisualEffectView and MJRefresh you can also consider the following projects:

PCLBlurEffectAlert - Swift AlertController with UIVisualeffectview

SVPullToRefresh - Give pull-to-refresh & infinite scrolling to any UIScrollView with 1 line of code.

KDCircularProgress - A circular progress view with gradients written in Swift

ESPullToRefresh - #Busy Re-Building....# An easy way to use pull to refresh and infinite scrolling in Swift. Pod 'ESPullToRefresh'

Blurable - Apply a Gaussian Blur to any UIView with Swift Protocol Extensions

Macaw - Powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics Swift library with SVG support

Adaptive Tab Bar - :octocat: AdaptiveController is a 'Progressive Reduction' Swift UI module for adding custom states to Native or Custom iOS UI elements. Swift UI component by @Ramotion

AsyncDisplayKit - Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.

DynamicBlurView - DynamicBlurView is a dynamic and high performance UIView subclass for Blur.

BOZPongRefreshControl - A pull-down-to-refresh control for iOS that plays pong, originally created for the MHacks III iOS app

MZFormSheetPresentationController - MZFormSheetPresentationController provides an alternative to the native iOS UIModalPresentationFormSheet, adding support for iPhone and additional opportunities to setup UIPresentationController size and feel form sheet.

PullToBounce - Animated "Pull To Refresh" Library for UIScrollView. Inspired by https://dribbble.com/shots/1797373-Pull-Down-To-Refresh