SwiftCarousel is a lightweight, written natively in Swift, circular UIScrollView.
So what is there more to that than just a circular scroll view? You can spin it like a real carousel!
Swift 2.0, iOS 9
SwiftCarousel is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod "SwiftCarousel"
Then run pod install
and it should be 🔥
Also remember to add import SwiftCarousel
in your project.
You can use Examples directory for examples with creating SwiftCarousel using IB or code.
First, create UIView
object and assign SwiftCarousel
class to it.
Then we need to assign some selectable UIViews
. It might be UILabels
, UIImageViews
etc.
The last step would be setting correct resizeType
parameter which contains:
public enum SwiftCarouselResizeType {
// WithoutResizing is adding frames as they are.
// Parameter = spacing between UIViews.
// !!You need to pass correct frame sizes as items!!
case WithoutResizing(CGFloat)
// VisibleItemsPerPage will try to fit the number of items you specify
// in the whole screen (will resize them of course).
// Parameter = number of items visible on screen.
case VisibleItemsPerPage(Int)
// FloatWithSpacing will use sizeToFit() on your views to correctly place images
// It is helpful for instance with UILabels (Example1 in Examples folder).
// Parameter = spacing between UIViews.
case FloatWithSpacing(CGFloat)
}
Basic setup would look like:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
items = ["Elephants", "Tigers", "Chickens", "Owls", "Rats", "Parrots", "Snakes"]
itemsViews = items!.map { labelForString($0) }
carousel.items = itemsViews!
carousel.resizeType = .VisibleItemsPerPage(3)
carousel.defaultSelectedIndex = 3 // Select default item at start
carousel.delegate = self
}
func labelForString(string: String) -> UILabel {
let text = UILabel()
text.text = string
text.textColor = .blackColor()
text.textAlignment = .Center
text.font = .systemFontOfSize(24.0)
text.numberOfLines = 0
return text
}
Here we use itemsFactory(itemsCount:facory:)
method. This method allows you to setup your carousel using closure rather than static array of views. Why would we want to use that? In case of quite complicated logic. E.g. if you want to have CALayer
properties all across the carousel.
let carouselFrame = CGRect(x: view.center.x - 200.0, y: view.center.y - 100.0, width: 400.0, height: 200.0)
carouselView = SwiftCarousel(frame: carouselFrame)
try! carouselView.itemsFactory(itemsCount: 5) { choice in
let imageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "puppy\(choice+1)"))
imageView.frame = CGRect(origin: CGPointZero, size: CGSize(width: 200.0, height: 200.0))
return imageView
}
carouselView.resizeType = .WithoutResizing(10.0)
carouselView.delegate = self
carouselView.defaultSelectedIndex = 2
view.addSubview(carouselView)
You can use method selectItem(_:animated:)
to programmatically select your item:
carousel.selectItem(1, animated: true)
Or you can set default selected item:
carousel.defaultSelectedIndex = 3
You can disable selecting item by tapping it (its enabled by default):
carousel.selectByTapEnabled = false
You can also get current selected index:
let selectedIndex = carousel.selectedIndex
You can implement SwiftCarouselDelegate
protocol:
@objc public protocol SwiftCarouselDelegate {
optional func didSelectItem(item item: UIView, index: Int, tapped: Bool) -> UIView?
optional func didDeselectItem(item item: UIView, index: Int) -> UIView?
optional func didScroll(toOffset offset: CGPoint) -> Void
optional func willBeginDragging(withOffset offset: CGPoint) -> Void
optional func didEndDragging(withOffset offset: CGPoint) -> Void
}
Then you need to set the delegate
property:
carousel.delegate = self
If you need more, basic usages in Example1 project in directory Examples.
The original views are internally copied to using the copyView
method defined in the UIView+SwiftCarousel
extension when using the items
property. This performs a shallow copy of the view using NSKeyedUnarchiver
and NSKeyedArchiver
. So, if a custom UIView
subclass with references to external objects is used, those references might be nil when didSelectItem
and didDeselectItem
delegate methods are called. To avoid this situation, the itemsFactory
method can be used instead of the items
property to setup the carousel.
Feel free to make issues/pull requests if you have some questions, ideas for improvement, or maybe bugs you've found. After some contribution I'm giving write access as a thank you 🎉
Sunshinejr, thesunshinejr@gmail.com, @thesunshinejr
SwiftCarousel is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.