Collection view content not showing in view - ios

Question

I have no idea why this is happening, I had a different Xcode project with this exact same collection view just to test things out and make it and I've finished making it and it works very well in that project. Then I moved all the code and items over to my main Xcode project and the collection view just isn't showing in my view controller when I play the app.
How do you debug collection views? The two: playerCollect?.cellForItem(at: path) and playerCollect.indexPathForItem(at: p) both return nil if that's an issue? I don't know. I might've not connected everything back together once I moved it over to my main project, but yet again how would you find that out? Here's my full code for the viewController containing the UICollectionView:
import UIKit
import AVKit
import Firebase
import MMPlayerView
class HomeViewController: UIViewController {
var offsetObservation: NSKeyValueObservation?
lazy var mmPlayerLayer: MMPlayerLayer = {
let l = MMPlayerLayer()
l.cacheType = .memory(count: 5)
l.coverFitType = .fitToPlayerView
l.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspect
l.replace(cover: CoverA.instantiateFromNib())
l.repeatWhenEnd = true
return l
}()
#IBOutlet weak var playerCollect: UICollectionView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// remove previous download fails file
MMPlayerDownloader.cleanTmpFile()
self.navigationController?.mmPlayerTransition.push.pass(setting: { (_) in
})
offsetObservation = playerCollect.observe(\.contentOffset, options: [.new]) { [weak self] (_, value) in
guard let self = self, self.presentedViewController == nil else {return}
NSObject.cancelPreviousPerformRequests(withTarget: self)
self.perform(#selector(self.startLoading), with: nil, afterDelay: 0.2)
}
playerCollect.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 200, right:0)
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) { [weak self] in
self?.updateByContentOffset()
self?.startLoading()
}
mmPlayerLayer.getStatusBlock { [weak self] (status) in
switch status {
case .failed(let err):
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "err", message: err.description, preferredStyle: .alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: nil))
self?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
case .ready:
print("Ready to Play")
case .playing:
print("Playing")
case .pause:
print("Pause")
case .end:
print("End")
default: break
}
}
mmPlayerLayer.getOrientationChange { (status) in
print("Player OrientationChange \(status)")
}
}
deinit {
offsetObservation?.invalidate()
offsetObservation = nil
print("ViewController deinit")
}
#IBAction func profileButtonTap(_ sender: Any) {
let uid = (Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid)!
let Splash = SpalshScreenViewController()
Splash.GetProfilePicture(uid: uid)
Splash.GetUsername(uid: uid)
Splash.GetName(uid: uid)
Splash.GetClipsNumber(uid: uid)
Splash.GetFollowersNumber(uid: uid)
Splash.GetFollowingsNumber(uid: uid)
performSegue(withIdentifier: "showProfile", sender: nil)
}
}
extension HomeViewController: MMPlayerFromProtocol {
func backReplaceSuperView(original: UIView?) -> UIView? {
guard let path = self.findCurrentPath(),
let cell = self.findCurrentCell(path: path) as? PlayerCell else {
return original
}
return cell.imgView
}
// add layer to temp view and pass to another controller
var passPlayer: MMPlayerLayer {
return self.mmPlayerLayer
}
func transitionWillStart() {
}
// show cell.image
func transitionCompleted() {
self.updateByContentOffset()
self.startLoading()
}
}
extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout {
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
let m = min(UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, UIScreen.main.bounds.size.height)
return CGSize(width: m, height: m*0.75)
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
DispatchQueue.main.async { [unowned self] in
if self.presentedViewController != nil || self.mmPlayerLayer.isShrink == true {
//self.playerCollect.scrollToItem(at: indexPath, at: .centeredVertically, animated: true)
//self.updateDetail(at: indexPath)
} else {
self.presentDetail(at: indexPath)
}
}
}
fileprivate func updateByContentOffset() {
if mmPlayerLayer.isShrink {
return
}
if let path = findCurrentPath(),
self.presentedViewController == nil {
self.updateCell(at: path)
//Demo SubTitle
if path.row == 0, self.mmPlayerLayer.subtitleSetting.subtitleType == nil {
let subtitleStr = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "srtDemo", ofType: "srt")!
if let str = try? String.init(contentsOfFile: subtitleStr) {
self.mmPlayerLayer.subtitleSetting.subtitleType = .srt(info: str)
self.mmPlayerLayer.subtitleSetting.defaultTextColor = .red
self.mmPlayerLayer.subtitleSetting.defaultFont = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 20)
}
}
}
}
fileprivate func presentDetail(at indexPath: IndexPath) {
self.updateCell(at: indexPath)
mmPlayerLayer.resume()
if let vc = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "DetailViewController") as? DetailViewController {
vc.data = DemoSource.shared.demoData[indexPath.row]
self.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
fileprivate func updateCell(at indexPath: IndexPath) {
if let cell = playerCollect.cellForItem(at: indexPath) as? PlayerCell, let playURL = cell.data?.play_Url {
// this thumb use when transition start and your video dosent start
mmPlayerLayer.thumbImageView.image = cell.imgView.image
// set video where to play
mmPlayerLayer.playView = cell.imgView
mmPlayerLayer.set(url: playURL)
}
}
#objc fileprivate func startLoading() {
self.updateByContentOffset()
if self.presentedViewController != nil {
return
}
// start loading video
mmPlayerLayer.resume()
}
private func findCurrentPath() -> IndexPath? {
let p = CGPoint(x: playerCollect.contentOffset.x + playerCollect.frame.width/2, y: playerCollect.frame.height/2)
print(playerCollect.indexPathForItem(at: p))
return playerCollect.indexPathForItem(at: p)
}
private func findCurrentCell(path: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell? {
print(playerCollect?.cellForItem(at: path))
return playerCollect?.cellForItem(at: path)
}
}
extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource {
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return DemoSource.shared.demoData.count
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
if let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "PlayerCell", for: indexPath) as? PlayerCell {
cell.data = DemoSource.shared.demoData[indexPath.row]
return cell
}
return UICollectionViewCell()
}
}

Answer 1

Did you give the collection view's delegate and data source at this view controller?
self.playerCollect.delegate = self
self.playerCollect.dataSource = self
and add:
self.playerCollect.reloadData()

Answer 2

Update your code as below.
class HomeViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
self.playerCollect.delegate = self
self.playerCollect.dataSource = self
}
}
extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDataSource {
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return DemoSource.shared.demoData.count
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
if let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "PlayerCell", for: indexPath) as? PlayerCell {
cell.data = DemoSource.shared.demoData[indexPath.row]
return cell
}
return UICollectionViewCell()
}
}