UICollectionView selectItemAtIndexPath doesn't call didSelectItemAtIndexPath

Question

I have a collection view. I would like to programmatically select a cell. This is the code I use

[_collectionView selectItemAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathFor         


        

Answer 1

Yes, this is proper behaviour. Documentation for [selectItemAtIndexPath:animated:scrollPosition:] says:

This method does not cause any selection-related delegate methods to be called.