How can a get the auto layout size of the UICollectionViewCells in iOS 8? (systemLayoutSizeFittingSize returns size with zero height in iOS 8)

Question

Since iOS 8 [UIColletionViewCell systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize] returns a size with height of 0.

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Answer 1

What you need to do is wrap all of your content in a container view, then call:

return [sampleCell.containerView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize];

Your cell should look like this: cell -> containerView -> sub views

This works on both ios7 & ios8.

Supposedly on ios8, all you have to do is set the estimateSize & cell will automatically auto size on its own. Apparently that's not working as of beta 6.