Detect when y offset changes in scrollView with paging enabled - ios

Question

I would like to find out which page is visible to the user and also do a certain action when a change in the page is detected. To do this I am using the function scrollViewDidScroll. As I didn't get the result I wanted (nothing happened), I looked for answers on stackoverflow and found the following question which was answered: Detecting UIScrollView page change, to be more precise I used the answer by Michael Waterfall and converted the Objective-C code to swift code.
Below you will find the code I used to create the scrollView in my class HomeController: UIViewController, UIScrollViewDelegate {. Moreover the function by Michael Waterfall is declared and called in the function initiateScrollView(). However, the function doesn't print anything. Do you know where I am doing something wrong? I can't see where I made a mistake. Nothing happens when I scroll (e.g. from page 1 to page 2 (homeView to view2)). The function only prints before: 0 once and after that nothing happens.
Code
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
view.backgroundColor = .white
initiateScrollView()
}
func initiateScrollView() {
//create scrollView with paging enabled
let scrollView = UIScrollView(frame: view.bounds)
scrollView.isPagingEnabled = true
view.addSubview(scrollView)
//get page size
let pageSize = view.bounds.size
//individual views
let homeView = UIView()
homeView.backgroundColor = .green
let view2 = UIView()
view2.backgroundColor = .blue
let view3 = UIView()
view3.backgroundColor = .red
//array with individual views
let pagesViews = [homeView, view2, view3]
//amount of views
let numberOfPages = pagesViews.count
print(numberOfPages) //prints '3'
//add subviews (pages)
for (pageIndex, page) in pagesViews.enumerated(){
//add individual pages to scrollView
page.frame = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x:0 , y: CGFloat(pageIndex) * pageSize.height), size: pageSize)
scrollView.addSubview(page)
}
func scrollViewDidScroll(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
var previousPage = 0
let fractionalPage: Float = Float(scrollView.contentOffset.y / pageSize.height)
let page = lround(Double(fractionalPage))
print("before:", page) //prints 'before: 0' once
if previousPage != page {
// Page has changed, do your thing!
// ...
// Finally, update previous page
print("before:", page)
previousPage = page
print("after:", page)
} //never prints anything
}
scrollViewDidScroll(scrollView: scrollView)
//define size of scrollView
scrollView.contentSize = CGSize(width: pageSize.width, height: pageSize.height * CGFloat(numberOfPages))
}

Answer 1

You forgot to set the viewController as the delegate for the scroll view, as following:
func initiateScrollView() {
//create scrollView with paging enabled
let scrollView = UIScrollView(frame: view.bounds)
scrollView.isPagingEnabled = true
scrollView.delegate = self
view.addSubview(scrollView)
(...) }
And I recommend that you use the scrollViewDidEndScrollingAnimation(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) function, instead of scrollViewDidScroll(...)

Answer 2

This is because you haven't set the delegate property of your scrollview.
Add scrollView.delegate = self in your initiateScrollView method.