How to center align the cells of a UICollectionView in Swift3.0?

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Answer for Objective-C and Swift2.0: How to center align the cells of a UICollectionView?

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Answer 1

Slight adaptation of @rottenoats answer. This is more generic.

Most importantly remember to make your view controller conform to the UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout protocol.

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAt section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {

    guard let flowLayout = collectionViewLayout as? UICollectionViewFlowLayout else {
        return .zero
    }

    let cellCount = CGFloat(collectionView.numberOfItems(inSection: section))

    if cellCount > 0 {
        let cellWidth = flowLayout.itemSize.width + flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing

        let totalCellWidth = cellWidth * cellCount
        let contentWidth = collectionView.frame.size.width - collectionView.contentInset.left - collectionView.contentInset.right - flowLayout.headerReferenceSize.width - flowLayout.footerReferenceSize.width

        if (totalCellWidth < contentWidth) {
            let padding = (contentWidth - totalCellWidth + flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing) / 2.0
            return UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, padding, 0, 0)
        }
    }

    return .zero
}