UICollectionView performBatchUpdates: animates all sections

Question

I\'m writing a custom UICollectionViewFlowLayout and I\'ve noticed that initialLayoutAttributesForAppearingItemAtIndexPath: and initialLayoutAttr

Answer 1

OK, I've got an answer; it's not a lot prettier than the previous one, but it keeps the layout from touching the datasource, so it's cleaner.

Basically, we need to override prepareForCollectionViewUpdates: and finalizeCollectionViewUpdates to keep track of the sections that we're inserting. I have a mutable set that contains NSNumber instances of the sections that we're inserting.

-(void)prepareForCollectionViewUpdates:(NSArray *)updateItems
{
    [super prepareForCollectionViewUpdates:updateItems];

    [updateItems enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(UICollectionViewUpdateItem *updateItem, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
        if (updateItem.updateAction == UICollectionUpdateActionInsert)
        {
            [insertedSectionSet addObject:@(updateItem.indexPathAfterUpdate.section)];
        }
    }];
}

-(void)finalizeCollectionViewUpdates
{
    [super finalizeCollectionViewUpdates];

    [insertedSectionSet removeAllObjects];
}

Next, I check to see if the index path's section is included in that set when setting the initial layout attributes for items and decoration views.

-(UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *)initialLayoutAttributesForAppearingDecorationElementOfKind:(NSString *)elementKind atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)decorationIndexPath
{
    UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *layoutAttributes;

    if ([elementKind isEqualToString:AFCollectionViewFlowLayoutBackgroundDecoration])
    {
        if ([insertedSectionSet containsObject:@(decorationIndexPath.section)])
        {
            layoutAttributes = [self layoutAttributesForDecorationViewOfKind:elementKind atIndexPath:decorationIndexPath];
            layoutAttributes.alpha = 0.0f;
            layoutAttributes.transform3D = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(-CGRectGetWidth(layoutAttributes.frame), 0, 0);
        }
    }

    return layoutAttributes;
}

-(UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *)initialLayoutAttributesForAppearingItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)itemIndexPath
{
    UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *layoutAttributes;

    if ([insertedSectionSet containsObject:@(itemIndexPath.section)])
    {
        layoutAttributes = [self layoutAttributesForItemAtIndexPath:itemIndexPath];
        layoutAttributes.transform3D = CATransform3DMakeTranslation([self collectionViewContentSize].width, 0, 0);
    }

    return layoutAttributes;
}

I'm returning nil from these methods otherwise because nil is the default value.

This has the added benefit of having nicer rotation animations, as well.