Mastering UICollectionViewLayoutGuide: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Custom Layouts in UICollectionView

Use UICollectionView properly

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Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 12.5, and Swift 5.4

Prerequisites:

• You will be expected to be aware of how to make a Single View Application

Terminology

UICollectionViewLayerAttributes: A layout object that manages the layout-related attributes for a given item in a collection view

UICollectionViewFlowLayout: A layout object that organizes items into a grid with optional header and footer views for each section

UICollectionViewCell: The on-screen cell for the UICollectionView type

UICollectionViewLayout: An abstract base class for generating layout information for a collection view

Implement a UICollectionView

We are going to implement UICollectionView where we can scroll vertically or horizontally, and view several UICollectionViewCell items.