Embed a UICollectionView Inside a UITableViewCell

That is, so it works

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Before we start

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3

Prerequisites

• You will be expected to be aware how to either make a Single View Application in Swift or use a Playground
• This article uses the Storyboard to implement the UITableView, and then creates the UITableViewCell programmatically

Keywords and Terminology

IndexPath: The path to a specific node in a tree of nested array collections

UICollectionView: An object that manages an ordered collection of data items and presents them using customizable layouts

UICollectionViewCell: The on-screen cell for the UICollectionView type

UITableView: A view that presents data using rows arranged in a single column

UITableViewCell: The visual representation of a single row in a table view

This project

Background

Creating great user interfaces should interest us all. UIKit has some great advantages as a…