Delete cell from UICollectionView without reloading from top [closed]

Answer 1

No delegate methods provided to UICollectionViewController as like UITableviewController. We can do it manually by adding a long gesture recognizer to UICollectionView.

 UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self
                                                                                         action:@selector(activateDeletionMode:)];
 longPress.delegate = self;
 [collectionView addGestureRecognizer:longPress];

In longGesture method add button on that particular cell.

- (void)activateDeletionMode:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)gr
{
    if (gr.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
        if (!isDeleteActive) {
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = [collectionView indexPathForItemAtPoint:[gr locationInView:collectionView]];
        UICollectionViewCell *cell = [collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
        deletedIndexpath = indexPath.row;
        [cell addSubview:deleteButton];
        [deleteButton bringSubviewToFront:collectionView];
        }
     }
 }

In that button action,

- (void)delete:(UIButton *)sender
{
    [self.arrPhotos removeObjectAtIndex:deletedIndexpath];
    [deleteButton removeFromSuperview];
    [collectionView reloadData];
}

I think it can help you.

Answer 2

UICollectionView will animate and automatically rearrange the cells after deletion.

Delete selected items from collection view

[self.collectionView performBatchUpdates:^{

    NSArray *selectedItemsIndexPaths = [self.collectionView indexPathsForSelectedItems];

    // Delete the items from the data source.
    [self deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:selectedItemsIndexPaths];

    // Now delete the items from the collection view.
    [self.collectionView deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:selectedItemsIndexPaths]; 

} completion:nil];



// This method is for deleting the selected images from the data source array
-(void)deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:(NSArray  *)itemPaths
{
    NSMutableIndexSet *indexSet = [NSMutableIndexSet indexSet];
    for (NSIndexPath *itemPath  in itemPaths) {
        [indexSet addIndex:itemPath.row];
    }
    [self.images removeObjectsAtIndexes:indexSet]; // self.images is my data source

}