UICollectionView cells covering up the scroll indicator - ios

The sections in my UICollectionView have 0 insets on the right, making my cells flush with the right sides of the collection view. The scroll view indicator is being covered by the cells. Is there a way to make the scroll view indicator always on top?

The problem was the collection view flow layout I was using to get sticky headers for my collection views. I was using CSStickyHeaderFlowLayout (https://github.com/jamztang/CSStickyHeaderFlowLayout), which was also causing another problem of touches passing through my headers (which had segmented controls in them for changing the sorting). I would advise NOT to use this flow layout.
A better, working collection view flow layout for sticky headers is https://stackoverflow.com/a/15689942/2142100. This fixed both of my problems.

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How to make a Horizontal and vertical scrolling TableView in iOS using storyboard?

here is my design structure
I was wondering about creating a horizontal and vertical scrolling tableview. I have tried a tableview inside a scrollview but I failed miserably. What to do?
I use swift4 but I wanted to do in storyboard.
The nature of content is like an excel sheet with lots of horizontal and vertical scrolling rows and columns of data.
Actually you can do this using a hack. Put the tableView inside a scrollView. Then you should give a dynamic width to the tableView by specifying a width in storyboard for tableView or any child view of that scrollView(So we get the horizontal scrolling).You have to adjust some constraints depending on your requirement
Mine worked fine but as many users have said try a collection View if its easy
Note. There is a default scrollView within a tableView, So adjust your height of tableView in a way so the scrollView of tableView work and not the parent scrollView, while scrolling from top to bottom
Instead of using TableView try using collection view, there you can use horizontal and vertical scrolling using storyboard?
Try to use collectionview instead of tableview.
If your requirement demands use of tableview anyhow, then you can use tableview within scrollview.
In tableview within scrollview approach, you need to distinguish your parent scrollview as well as tableview's scrollview. Try to differentiate parent scrollview and tableview's scrollview with different tags. Because both scrollview will call delegate methods of viewcontroller, if implemented. Just check tag of scrollview in all delegate methods of scrollview and perform action accordingly.
As per my understaing you want a view which you want vertical scroll view and horizontal inside it.
So here my suggestion is to use UITABLEVIEW for vertical scrolling and UICOLLECTIONVIEW for horizontal scrolling inside tableview
Both will work fine

One section of the view controller is still and one section horizontally scrollable

I would like to construct a view controller where one section of the view controller would be still and one section scrollable.
Both sections have headers where as well, one is still and one is moving along with the content in the section.
I do not want the cells in the section to be scrolled separately. All cells should move at the same time along with the header.
I have added an image to make my point little more clearer.
Use UICollection View for both view and disable scrolling for one view and enable scrolling for another view
you can probably add to your UIViewController view a UITableView on the left with fixed size (for example 150px) and vertical scroll disabled and a UICollectionView with horizontal flow and ,if needed a, with custom UICollectionViewLayout (but i think that you just need the classic UICollectionViewFlowLayout) for the right part that fits the remaining space.
Here you can find the component's documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uicollectionview
https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uitableview

Swift: Did Tumblr add a UICollectionView in a UIScrollView?

I've been trying to replicate this effect for a couple days which was inspired by Tumblr.
I've previously asked questions on here with different approaches of the same problem but to no avail. I'm just curious as to how the engineers at Tumblr created a horizontal collection view, with two vertical collection views, and is able to scroll down without affecting the view above (without resetting the position of the view when you scroll vertically in a different tab).
Header Views
I tried this, but the header view was isolated and I had to scroll to the right to see the collectionView cells. This did not work.
Changing the topLayoutConstraint constant of my UIView (not cv header) with respect to the contentOffSet of the vertical collectionView.
This almost got the effect I wanted, except that when I scrolled horizontally, there was a huge gap between my collection view and if I scrolled in that new tab, the UIView would appear again because, again, topLayoutConstraint gets scrolled up depending on the contentOffSet of my vertical collectionView contentOffset.
Changing the position of the UICollectionView frame, and scrolling the super view up simultaneously with NSNotificationCenter.
Alas, this method did the same as method #2, except that the vertical collection view cells scrolled faster than the super view.
I ran out of options to make this work so I will show you in detail what's attempted to be replicated (also note the scroll bar on the right):
Note when I scroll down the first tab. I switch, and then scroll down further. Originally, as I've said, there would be a gap between the second main CV, and when I scrolled, the view would reposition as if were scrolling up again. On here, the view on top keeps going up. So I'm curious as to what method Tumblr engineers used to do this. UICollectionView inside UIScrollView? Other suggestions?
I believe there is no UICollectionView involved. It looks like UIPageViewController and each its page is a UITableView.
Perhaps the UIPageViewController sits in a UITableView as well - the header also moves up when you scroll. This main table has only one cell (and a header) which is occupied by the UIPageViewController.
Hope it helps.

Vertical View Pager either in Swift or in Objective C

Is it possible to implement Vertical ViewPager or not?
if Yes the please suggest me how to do it.
I am working on an app, which is similar to Quiz App.
I want to implement Quiz App result screen in which I am looking to implement Vertical View pager.
Thank you
Abhishek
So that's simply a scroll view, or a subclass of (I.e. A table or collection view). The scroll direction is controlled by the content size (or the layout for the collection). Any scroll view can have paging enabled.
If using a table or collection you simply need to set the row height or item size to the size of the view. For a plain scroll view you add the page views as sub views and set their size to equal the scroll view frame.

How should I approach structuring this view?

I'm having a hard time finding the best way to structure this design.
The top view has a minimum height and becomes sticky when it reaches this height. The bottom view hosts a paging controller with three views within. Each of these views hosts either a collection view or table view with vertical scrolling.
I'm really at a loss on how to approach this. Is the entire view scrollable and I should prevent scrolling on the second view until the top view has reached it's sticky height? Or are each of these views separate uitableviews and the pagingcontroller is just one cell? Should I even be using a pagingcontroller or should I use a scrollview with paging enabled? (the latter was a little rough interaction-wise)
Thank you!
Take a look at the Advanced User Interfaces using Collection View from WWDC this year. This view is very very very similar to the iTunes Connect app interface. The entire session video explains how they created that interface.
I used a similar method to this to create the keyboard in the Emojicate app.
I think what I'd do is actually fake the sticky header. So something like this...
Use only one collection view.
Create a "segmented data source" that contains three data sources. (See the video from WWDC about this)
When the segmented control is changed then update the collection view by changing its layout and (if you want) dataSource.
Make the entire top section a header on the collection view.
When the collection view scrolls past a certain point (when you want to sticky the header) then have a second view that is the compressed header and make it visible at the top of the screen. This is not attached to the collection view at all.
When the segmented control changes you can update the collection view by changing the "selected datasource". The datasource can also contain a UICollectionViewLayout that will update it.
Essentially, the tableview you are talking about is just a collection view where the cell width is equal to the screen width. i.e. fake a table view.
The sticky header isn't sticky at all. Just when it starts to go off screen you can put a fake header there instead.
It will require a duplicate (ish) view and some thinking about how to structure the data but I think this will be easier and less resource hungry than having multiple collection views and page controller and stuff.
If you want me to go through it in more detail let me know but it's a complex subject. Watch the video first.
I would make this part a navigation bar. Should be relatively easy. Just have to customize the back button with a barButtonItem and do a couple of labels in the titleView.
I would make the next part a Table View.
The tableView has 2 sections. The first section doesn't have a section header and the second section doesn't have any cells but just a section header.
First and only cell in this section:
And the rest would be the second section header's view:
This gives you the stickiness that you want because the section header will remain there even if you scroll past it and since the collection has only 2 sections the controls will always remain on top.
I think the collection/table paging part is the hardest part and I don't know clearly how it can be done. But I was thinking it could perhaps be a ContainerView. Each view of the container view would be either a tableview or a collectionview. You would have to add some code to handle the movement of the containerview relative to the second section header (possibly an autolayout constraint that attaches the containerview to the buttom of the first tableview that you implemented above).
I don't think having your tables/collections in a scrollview would be a good implementation. I think I have even read in documentation that developers should stay away from that (but I might be remembering it incorrectly).
I would have:
A "header view" with three subviews:
Fixed height top and bottom views (they stay visible at any size).
A middle view that appears/disappears as the superview grows/shrinks.
A scroll view (table or collection view are subclasses) on that partially covers the header view with a top inset set enough to reveal the underlying header view (the same way pull to refresh views are revealed).
The paging buttons could be set as table/collection view section header views.
Finally track the scroll view's scroll position to keep manually adjusting the header view height.
Another way to see this solution.
Two completely separated parts, a header view and a table view.
A simple header view (blue) that adjusts its subviews as its height changes. More precisely hides its middle subview (light blue) when it shrinks.
A table view that a) partially covers the header view in Interface builder but b) has a top inset as to avoid hiding the header view in the actual device (tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(60.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);).
The two parts are only "connected" by resizing the header view height as the table view scrolls up/down.

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