Fade the First and Last Elements in a UICollectionView

Watch those indices

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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 make a Single View Application in Swift.
• Subclass UICollectionViewCell

Keywords and Terminology:

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

This project

The motivation

I want to make by UICollectionView instances that little bit better. I want to bring the user’s attention to the cell that is wholly visible on the screen.

You know what, I’ll set the alpha of the cells that are not fully displayed so they look slightly washed out.

Wait, how am I going to do that?

The Project