Error could not dequeue a view of kind UICollectionElementKindCell

Question

Taking first plunge with collection views and am running into this error:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception \'NSInternalInconsistencyException

Answer 1

Swift4.0

Whenever your UITableViewCell is xib at that time you must have to register with UITableView.

override func viewDidLoad(){
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.yourtableview.register(UINib(nibName: "yourCellXIBname", bundle: Bundle.main), forCellReuseIdentifier: "YourCellReUseIdentifier")
   }

Answer 2

I know this is an old one, but I've experienced the same problem and wanted to share what fixed it for me.

In my case, I've declared a global identifier

let identifier = "CollectionViewCell"

and had to use self right before using it:

collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier(self.identifier, forIndexPath: indexPath) as! CollectionViewCell

Hope this helps someone :)

Answer 3

I had the same problem.
When I created a CollectionViewController, the default reuseIdentifier was Cell with capital C, but I made a mistake and made my cell identifier in Storyboard to be cell
They must be the same.

Answer 4

From the UICollectionView documentation for the dequeue method:

Important: You must register a class or nib file using the registerClass:forCellWithReuseIdentifier: or registerNib:forCellWithReuseIdentifier: method before calling this method.

Answer 5

If you are using storyboard instead of xib, here are few steps.

1. Making sure you fill the right identifier of your cell.

2. In the ColletionViewDelegate.

   func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
       let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "YourCellName", for: indexPath)as! YourCellName
       return cell            
   }
   

3. That's it. You also don't want to add registerClass:forCellWithReuseIdentifier: which will cause element nil error.

Answer 6

If you create it by code, you must create a custom UICollectionViewCell, Then, init a UICollectionView ,and use loadView to set the view is the UICollectionView that you create. If you create in viewDidload() , it does not work. In addition, you can also drag a UICollectionViewController, it saves a lot of time.