Unable to modify UILabel frame inside UICollectionView? - ios

Question

I have ViewController and inside it UICollectionView, I'm trying to add UILable to UICollectionView programmatically :
let Label: UILabel = {
let label = UILabel()
label.text = "Sample Text Here"
label.textAlignment = .center
label.textColor = UIColor(white: 0.4, alpha: 0.4)
label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20)
return label
}()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
Label.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
Label.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 40, width: view.frame.width, height: 20)
collectionView.addSubview(Label)
}
when I tried to change the y value it's the same
when I tried to add it like this : view.addSubView(Label) didn't appear at all.
note: the label should appear if there's no data to populate the cells

Answer 1

It works..
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300), collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewFlowLayout())
self.view.addSubview(collectionView)
collectionView.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
let label = UILabel()
label.text = "Sample Text Here"
label.textAlignment = .center
label.textColor = UIColor(white: 0.4, alpha: 0.4)
label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20)
label.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 100, width: view.frame.width, height: 20)
collectionView.addSubview(label)
}
Be careful with adding labels directly to the collectionview, though.
You could create a uiview and add both label to it and collection (with the appropriate collection view layout of course). Use collection view only for displaying cells and add anything to the cell.contentView if you wish
Thanks.