SimpleCollectionView

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Implementing Modern Collection Views

Bring compositional layouts to your app and simplify updating your user interface with diffable data sources.

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Sample Code

UICollectionViewCell

NumberCell

import UIKit

class NumberCell: UICollectionViewCell {
    static let reuseIdentifier = String(describing: NumberCell.self)
    
    @IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!
    
}

UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource

dataSource

    enum Section {
        case main
    }

    @IBOutlet weak var collectionView: UICollectionView!
    
    var dataSource: UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource<Section, Int>!
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        configureDataSource()
    }
    
    func configureDataSource() {
        dataSource = UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource<Section, Int>(collectionView: self.collectionView, cellProvider: { (collectionView, indexPath, number) -> UICollectionViewCell? in
            
            guard let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: NumberCell.reuseIdentifier, for: indexPath) as? NumberCell else {
                fatalError("Cannot create new cell")
            }
            
            cell.label.text = number.description
            return cell
        })
        
        var initialSnapshot = NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot<Section, Int>()
        initialSnapshot.appendSections([.main])
        initialSnapshot.appendItems(Array(1...100))
        
        dataSource.apply(initialSnapshot, animatingDifferences: false)
        
    }

Layouts

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Arrange your collection view content in a highly configurable layout

NSCollectionLayoutGroup(set heightDimension as absolute)

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    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        collectionView.collectionViewLayout = configureLayout()
    }
    
    func configureLayout() -> UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout {
        let itemSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1.0), heightDimension: .fractionalHeight(1.0))
        let item = NSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)
        item.contentInsets = NSDirectionalEdgeInsets(top: 5.0, leading: 5.0, bottom: 5.0, trailing: 5.0)
        let groupSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1.0), heightDimension: .absolute(44.0))
        let group = NSCollectionLayoutGroup.horizontal(layoutSize: groupSize, subitems: [item])
        
        let selction = NSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
        return UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(section: selction)
        
    }

NSCollectionLayoutItem(set fractionalWidth as 0.2)

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    func configureLayout() -> UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout {
        let itemSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(0.2), heightDimension: .fractionalHeight(1.0))
        let item = NSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)
        item.contentInsets = NSDirectionalEdgeInsets(top: 5.0, leading: 5.0, bottom: 5.0, trailing: 5.0)
        let groupSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1.0), heightDimension: .absolute(44.0))
        let group = NSCollectionLayoutGroup.horizontal(layoutSize: groupSize, subitems: [item])
        
        let selction = NSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
        return UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(section: selction)
        
    }