I hate to be that guy, but why would you want to do that.
Just use your own loader/spinner or whatever you want… except the IonRefresher.
Create it as a component with flashy gif’s etc. that’s controlled through global state and then use it throughout your application and give the user a consistent experience.
‘give the user a consistent experience’
exactly. To have a single animation/whatever that says “i am refreshing something”. And since the ionRefresher is already there, why not trigger that instead of making your own custom animation/spinner that basically does the same thing?
It had been possible in earlier versions of ionic, that’s why we want it. I’m currently upgrading an app from ionic 3 to ionic 5, and this possibility is lost in time. I would really like to have it back