How to avoid UICollectionView repeating cells? - ios

Question

Hello I have a UICollectionView. I load data from a NSMutableArray and it has 4 objects. But my problem is its repeating the same cells again.
`
- (NSInteger)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
return mutArrayArtists.count;
}
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView: (UICollectionView *)collectionView {
return 2;
}
- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
static NSString *identifier = #"Cell";
UICollectionViewCell *cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:identifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
artist = [mutArrayArtists objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
UIImageView *recipeImageView = (UIImageView *)[cell viewWithTag:100];
recipeImageView.image = artist.artistImage;
UILabel *lblArtistname=(UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:102];
lblArtistname.text=artist.artistName;
UILabel *lblSongCount=(UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:101];
lblSongCount.text=artist.numberofSongs;
return cell;
}
`
But the result is like this
How can I avoid this? Please help me
Thanks

Answer 1

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView: (UICollectionView *)collectionView {
return 1; //instead of 2
}
The section here does not mean the number of columns. It means that the collection view will contain 2 sections vertically above each others

Answer 2

This is the problem:
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView: (UICollectionView *)collectionView {
return 2;
}
You have two sections to the collection view, and in your cell provider, you don't distinguish the sections. Change it to say return 1; (assuming you do want just one section in the collection) or update the cellForItemAtIndexPath function (by inspecting indexPath.section) to split the sections out as you intend.

Answer 3

This might be helpful
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
{
return 1;
}