CollectionView sizeForItemAtIndexPath never called

Question

This is driving me crazy! I have a UICollectionViewController as shown below:

class PhrasesCompactCollectionViewController: UICollectionViewController
         


        

Answer 1

Swift 3

To set Cell Size of UICollectionView, you need to create and customise object of UICollectionViewFlowLayout. Customise the properties and set that layout object to the UICollectionView object.

Change cellheight and cell cellWidth objects according to your requirement (the cell hight and width you want).

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let cellWidth : CGFloat = myCollectionView.frame.size.width / 4.0
    let cellheight : CGFloat = myCollectionView.frame.size.height - 2.0
    let cellSize = CGSize(width: cellWidth , height:cellheight)

    let layout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
    layout.scrollDirection = .vertical //.horizontal
    layout.itemSize = cellSize
    layout.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 1, left: 1, bottom: 1, right: 1)
    layout.minimumLineSpacing = 1.0
    layout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 1.0
    myCollectionView.setCollectionViewLayout(layout, animated: true)

    myCollectionView.reloadData()
}

Make Sure: if you added sizeForItemAt indexPath method then must REMOVE the method...

Remove Below Method

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {

}