Presenting ActionSheet Alert on UICollectionViewController - ios

Question

I have custom CollectionViewCell called DiaryCell in my project. I configure my cells using that class. Each cell has this menu button, and when it's clicked I want UICollectionviewcontroller to present actionsheet, but it gives me the following error.
'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'UICollectionView must be initialized with a non-nil layout parameter'
Here is the code to handle that action when menu button is pressed in the cell. This action is handled in UICollectionViewController. To sum it up, my tap gesture is defined in customCell and when tapped it redirects the code to controller to handle the actions.
func menuButtonPressed(_ gesture: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil)
let editAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Edit", style: .default) { (action) in
}
let deleteAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Delete", style: .destructive) { (action) in
}
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Pick Your Adventure 😜", message: "You have the following options", preferredStyle: .actionSheet)
alert.addAction(cancelAction)
alert.addAction(editAction)
alert.addAction(deleteAction)
present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
I believe it has something to do with view layers. Since a cell is tapped inside UICollectionview, it doesn't know how and where to present actionsheet. I could be wrong. Thank you for reading my question.
EDIT: Code responsible for redirection of action to controller.
var homeCollection = HomeCollectionViewController()
let menuImageView: UIImageView = {
let imageView = UIImageView()
imageView.image = #imageLiteral(resourceName: "menu_image")
imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
imageView.clipsToBounds = true
imageView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
imageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
return imageView
}()
func setUpMenuItemGesture() {
let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self.homeCollection, action: #selector(self.homeCollection.menuButtonPressed(_:)))
tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1
tapGesture.delegate = homeCollection
menuImageView.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
}
CODE FOR LAYOUT IN MY UICollectionViewController:
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
let width = collectionView.frame.size.width
return CGSize(width: width, height: width + (width*(0.15)))
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat {
return 0
}

Answer 1

My guess is that the problem is this line:
var homeCollection = HomeCollectionViewController()
That causes a completely new, separate HomeCollectionViewController to be created. It was never properly initialized and thus is invalid; more important, it is not the HomeCollectionViewController you want. You want a reference to the existing HomeCollectionViewController that you are already using, not a new and different HomeCollectionViewController.