Cell spacing in UICollectionView

Question

How do I set cell spacing in a section of UICollectionView? I know there is a property minimumInteritemSpacing I have set it to 5.0 still the spaci

Answer 1

Swift 3 Version

Simply create a UICollectionViewFlowLayout subclass and paste this method.

override func layoutAttributesForElements(in rect: CGRect) -> [UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes]? {
        guard let answer = super.layoutAttributesForElements(in: rect) else { return nil }

        for i in 1..<answer.count {
            let currentAttributes = answer[i]
            let previousAttributes = answer[i - 1]

            let maximumSpacing: CGFloat = 8
            let origin = previousAttributes.frame.maxX

            if (origin + maximumSpacing + currentAttributes.frame.size.width < self.collectionViewContentSize.width && currentAttributes.frame.origin.x > previousAttributes.frame.origin.x) {
                var frame = currentAttributes.frame
                frame.origin.x = origin + maximumSpacing
                currentAttributes.frame = frame
            }
        }

        return answer
}

Answer 2

Try playing around with this method:

- (UIEdgeInsets)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
                    layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout
    insetForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section {

    UIEdgeInsets insets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(?, ?, ?, ?);

    return insets;
}