UICollectionview custom flow layout delete cell - ios

Question

I have a horizontal UICollectionView that implements UICollectionViewLayout and uses targetContentOffsetForProposedContentOffset for a custom fling/paging functionality. Each cell is nearly the width of the screen with the next cell showing slightly to the right. The functionality works great, but I want to be able to delete the cell at index 0 when the current cell is index 1. I'm currently able to calculate and do this just fine, but upon deleting the index 0 cell it slides to the next cell (old index 2, new 1 (after deleting 0)) because of the current content offset. I'm not sure how I can delete index 0 while maintaining the current layout.
Right now in my delegate I'm doing:
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
float cellWidth = self.collectionView.bounds.size.width - 20;
float currentPage = self.collectionView.contentOffset.x / cellWidth;
if (currentPage == 1) {
[self remove:0];
}
}
-(void)remove:(int)i {
[self.collectionView performBatchUpdates:^{
[self.data removeObjectAtIndex:0];
NSIndexPath *indexPath =[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
[self.collectionView deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]];
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
}];
}
So the calculation and deletion works fine, but upon deleting [0], the collection view is scrolled to the next cell..and I'm not sure how to stop it.
I've tried self.collectionview.contentOffset = CGMakePoint(0,0) after the deleting, but the transition is still noticeably buggy. Any ideas on how to approach this problem?

Answer 1

so after a ton of trial and error I was able to resolve the issue. It might be a little hackish but I just wrapped the batch with a uiview animation that has no duration. Basically it overrides the deletion animation
[UIView animateWithDuration:0 animations:^{
[self.collectionView performBatchUpdates:^{
[scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 0) animated:NO];
[self.data removeObjectAtIndex:0];
NSIndexPath *indexPath =[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
[self.collectionView deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:#[indexPath]];
[self.collectionView.collectionViewLayout invalidateLayout];
} completion:nil];
}];