I want to make a layout using UICollectionVIew. But I am not sure it is possible or not.
I have tried changing height of one Cell but it is not working. Here is the layout which I want to acheive:
In this Layout height of each cell is fixed only the height and width of first cell is different.
How can I achieve this.
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I am using autolayout to determine the cellsize (fixed with, variable height) and set all the necessary constraints in the storyboard. Autolayout works fine as long as I don't change the constraints.
But at Runtime I have to add buttons to some cells. I remove the bottom constraint of the last label, insert the button and add a constraint to the label above, one leading constraint to the cell and one to the bottom of the cell.
The problem is, that the cells size is not updated after this. I tried to call LayoutIfNeeded in the cell and in the collection view but that did not work. I think the constraints are set up correctly. The button appears at the right position but the cell just keeps the height for a cell without a button. How can I tell the CollectionView to update the cell sizes?
You could refer the below link probably you can get your answer with manually and automatically size of UICollectionViewCell.
How make a collectionViewCell auto size only by height?
==> You can either use the UICollectionViewFlowLayout method itemSize property to set the UICollectionViewCell size, or use the delegate method, collectionView:layout:sizeForItemAtIndexPath: if you need to dynamically set the sizes of the UICollectionViewCells.
I'm using a UICollectionView inside of a UITableViewCell. It's all working fine, but i have some issues with Auto Layout. The UICollectionView should just show the cells without horizontal or vertical scrolling.Because now I have a the scrollable UICollectionView inside my UITableViewCell the following code doesn't work for me to get the dynamic table cells' height for this cell, but for other cells.
self.tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
self.tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44
I unchecked the option "scrolling enabled" in storyboard, but the result is, that i just can't scroll and don't see the rest of my collectionView.
Right now I simply set constraints from my UICollectionView to the UITableViewCell to all edges, but it's not working.
Would be great if someone have an idea.
Thanks a lot.
You'll need to have a height constraint set on your UICollectionView. If you've just pinned your UICollectionView to your UITableViewCell, it's getting its height from the table cell and the table cell is getting its height from the collection cell, so neither really knows what to do in that situation.
I did meet a similar issue before. It turned out that I haven't fully set up the relationship between the UITableViewCell and its containing elements so that they don't know how far to grow. I don't think this is related to embedded scrolling view. Just make sure that you have constraints set up between the UI elements inside the UITableViewCell and the bottom of UITableViewCell.
I have a collectionView inside a UITableViewCell. The collectionView's content is dynamic, hence, its height is dynamic too and the tableView cell's height depends on the collectionView's height. The collectionView cells have different sizes. The collectionView's height is always set to fit its contentSize height.
My problem is that the tableView's function heigthForRowAtIndexPath, is called before the collectionView is created (in cellForRowAtIndexPath) so, to return the height that fits the collectionView, I need to calculate it manually (which doesn't seem like a good idea for a collectionView with cells of different sizes).
I tried to use autolayout in order to use UITableViewAutomaticDimension but it didn't work (maybe I did it in a wrong way).
What is the best aproach to make a UITableViewCell consider the height of its subview in heightForRowAtIndexPath? Can I know a collectionView's estimated size without creating it?
Use self sizing, which is available in iOS 8. There are plenty of good tutorials online, like this one: http://www.appcoda.com/self-sizing-cells/.
The idea is that you can use auto layout and a few lines of code in viewDidLoad to render a table view cell that dynamically fits the content in it.
Some more tutorials:
http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2014/08/07/self-sizing-table-view-cells.html
https://github.com/smileyborg/TableViewCellWithAutoLayoutiOS8
My UITableViewCell subclass has several UILabels in it of varying length, and with iOS 8 and Auto Layout constraints in the cell the height is now automatically configured and cell heights can be dynamic.
However I want to embed all the contents of the cell in another UIView. Is it possible for the cell's height to still be dynamic? As in the UIView that the cell contents are embedded in will grow and shrink automatically based on the content and thus the cell will as well? Is this possible?
Dynamic height works by performing an Autolayout pass on the cell's content view. As long as the constraints are in place for a height to be calculated, the specific view hierarchy should be irrelevant.
I made a UICollectionView with a vertical scroll.
The width of the cell is more than than the screen width, so I created a customFlowLayout based on UICollectionViewFlow layout returning the right calculated content size.
However, this doesn't work. When the width of the cell is less than the screen width it works. Does it mean that we can't have width more than than screen width in vertical scroll?
It is the same for horizontal scroll, but then the height of the CollectionView is limited to screen height.
Is there any way to make it work?
As others have already said, the UICollectionView can only scroll one direction using a flow layout. However you can accomplish this very easily without creating a custom layout or using a third party library.
When you lay your view out in story board, you can put your UICollectionView embedded in a UIScrollView. Have the scrollview set up to scroll horizontally and the UICollectionView to scroll Vertically. Then set the UICollectionView.delaysContentTouchesto true so touches will pass through to the UIScrollView and not think you are trying to scroll the collectionview.
When you set up the UICollectionView, set it's size and the size of the cells to be what you actually want them to be (Wider than the actual screen) and lay them out accordingly.
Now in the containing UIViewController put this code in the view lifecycle
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
self.myScrollView.contentSize = self.myCollectionView.frame.size;
}
That's literally all you have to do to accomplish what you are describing. Now your scrollview should allow you to scroll horizontally to view your entire cell and your collectionView should scroll vertically through your cells.
Happy programming.
I'm not sure I've understood your problem.
But if you have made a custom layout, make sure you have implemented :
- (UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *)layoutAttributesForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;
and that your layout attributes frame and size are set with correct values for your "large cell" index path.
Also make sure you have implemented :
- (CGSize) collectionViewContentSize;
This method returns the contentSize of the collection View. If contentSize.width > youAppFrame.width you should have horizontal scrolling. Same for height and vertical scrolling.
Also make sure your collectionView allows scrolling and that your layout is prepared correctly using :
- (void)prepareLayout
By the way, for your layout have you overloaded UICollectionViewLayout or UICollectionViewFlowLayout ?
Before you can do that you MUST use a different type of layout. The flow layout represents its items as a list and it spans these items in cells based on the available width.
If you want to have both horizontal and vertical scrolling you need to somehow specify the number of columns for your grid. the FlowLayout doesn't have that. A simple sollution is to make a subclass of UICollectionViewLayout and override collectionViewContentSize to make it retun a width = to the added sum of the cells widths of one row (this is where knowing how many collumns you want is necessary), plus any additional spacing between them. This will work fine if your cells have the same size per column, similar to a grid.
You should embed a UITableView into a UIScrollView.
ScrollView and TableView will have the same height but different widths.
This way UITableView will scroll vertical and UIScrollView will scroll horizontal.
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