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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

Working with UICollectionView


UICollectionView is a very handy and awesome view when it comes to dealing with grid layout. Collection view helps you create a grid layout (2D cells) easily without hassle. Collection view is just a scrollable view that lays out multiple cells in a grid layout. So, to create a collection view, you have to specify a data source and delegate exactly like UITableView. Besides that, you need to specify how the layout of your cells will appear. iOS provides you with an abstract class-UICollectionViewLayout-which should be subclassed to customize how the content will be managed. You can create your own custom layouts and describe how you want to lay out your cells. However, thanks to Apple, it provides us with a premade layout called UICollectionViewFlowLayout, which flow the layout by placing the cells one after the other based on their sizes and the spacing between them.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new Xcode project with our lovely template Single View template and...

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