Last cell is highlighted when selecting first cell in UICollectionView - ios

I have an odd problem with my UICollectionView. When I select the first cell in my Collection View the last cell is highlighted but does not show up in the array of selected index paths. Why is this happening?
Here is the code I am using to select and deselect the cells?
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
// handle tap events
print("You selected cell #\(indexPath.item)!")
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
cell?.layer.borderWidth = highlightedCellBorderWidth
cell?.layer.borderColor = UIColor.yellow.cgColor
selectedImages.append(imageArray[indexPath.item])
print(selectedImages)
print(collectionView.indexPathsForSelectedItems)
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
cell?.layer.borderWidth = 0
let index = selectedImages.index(of: imageArray[indexPath.item])
selectedImages.remove(at: index!)
print(selectedImages)
print(collectionView.indexPathsForSelectedItems)
}

You don't show how your cell is initialized, but...
collectionView(_:didDeselectItemAt:) is only called when the user successfully deselects an item. It does not get called if you deselect an item programmatically. If you are not resetting your layer's borderWidth when initializing a cell, the non-zero width will carry forward when the cell is reused by the collection view.

I found this link on S.O. which was helpful. To solve the problem I simply added the following code to my func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {}.
Code...
if collectionView.indexPathsForSelectedItems?.contains(indexPath) == true {
print("This cell is selected \(indexPath.item)")
cell?.layer.borderWidth = 3
cell?.layer.borderColor = UIColor.yellow.cgColor
}else{
cell?.layer.borderWidth = 0
}

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I have a Horizontal UICollectionView like the horizontal Calender in iOS.
Paging is enabled but not allowsMultipleSelection.
self.allowsMultipleSelection = false
self.isPagingEnabled = true
There are only 5 cells per page.
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didSelectItemAt change background color to .red and didDeselectItem resets it to .white.
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let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
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The collection view has multiple sections and rows. If I select a cell in the first visible page and scroll, random cells are selected in the next visible pages. That is to say random cells are red in the next pages. I do not want this to be so. I want to select/change color of cells manually.
How can I fix this?
Don't forget that UICollectionView has embedded reusing mechanism, so you should deselect your cells in the method "prepareToReuse" directly inside the cell class.
Take a class-level variable, say index
var index = -1
As you have said that multiple selections are not allowed so the following will do the job for you
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
index = indexPath.item
collectionView.reloadData()
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
if let cell = cell {
cell.backgroundColor = indexPath.item == index ? .red : .white
}
}
Whenever user tap on any cell we save the position in index variable and then call the reloadData() to notify collectionView about the change
In cellForRowAt we check if the current cell us selected we set the color to red otherwise white
First, if you want to preserve multiple selection, you have to remember your selected ones in an array since it would get lost if a cell gets recycled and reused. For that use something like a [IndexPath] type). If one selected cell is enough, you could use a non-array version of below code.
var selectedItems: [IndexPath] = []
Then, do your recoloring in your cell's cellForItemAt(:):
cell.backgroundColor = selectedItems.contains(indexPath) ? .red : .white
Your didSelectItemAt delegate function should look like:
if !selectedItems.contains(indexPath) { selectedItems.append(indexPath)}
collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)?.backgroundColor = .red
and your didDeselectItemAt delegate function:
if let index = selectedItems.firstIndex(of: indexPath) { selectedItems.remove(at: index) }
collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)?.backgroundColor = .white
This should actually work. Let me know if we have to do adjustments.

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I have a collection view, and you can select the items in it and toggle them on and off by changing the background colour. The cells are toggled on/off thanks to a boolean I have in an arrow I made for all of the cells. I have saved the bool value but when I try to write them back into the array and use collectionView.reloadData()the app crashes. My collectionViewcode is:
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._isSelectedis the boolean that says whether the cell is 'toggled'.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
First of all, uncommenting that line will produce an infinite loop. cellForRowAt happens because the collection view is reloading, so calling a refresh while the collection view is refreshing is no good.
So your issue is that you don't know how to display selected cells in your collection view, right?
Here's a function that fires right before the collection view is about to display a cell:
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell,
forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
<#code#>
}
Inside this function, you should:
Cast cell into your OLLCell (safely if you want to be thorough)
Look at your data and see if the cell should be selected OLLData.OLLCasesList[indexPath.item]._isSelected
Ask your casted cell to change its colors/UI/appearance according to your ._isSelected boolean
Step 3 has a VERY important caveat. You should be changing the UI when ._isSelected is false AND when it's true. Because the collection view reuses cells, old UI state will randomly recur. So setting it every time is a good way to ensure the behavior you want.
Here's an example:
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell,
forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
//Cast the vanilla cell into your custom cell so you have access
//to OLLCell's specific functions and properties.
//Also make sure the indexPath falls in the indices of your data
if let myCastedCell = cell as? OLLCell,
0 ..< OLLData.OLLCasesList.count ~= indexPath.item
{
myCastedCell.imageView.backgroundColor = OLLData
.OLLCasesList[indexPath.item]._isSelected
? UIColor.orange
: UIColor.clear
}
}

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