Backport of UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout to earlier iOS 12.
A new UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout class has been added to UIKit to make it incredibly easier to create custom complex collection view layout. You can use new excellent APIs immediately without maintaining two different code bases until iOS 13 would be widely adopted.
Note: that this library is still currently under active development. Please file all bugs, issues, and suggestions as an Issue in the GitHub repository.
At the WWDC 2019, Apple introduced a new form of UICollectionViewLayout. A new UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout class has been added to UIKit to make it easier to create compositional layouts without requiring a custom UICollectionViewLayout.
In iOS 12 and earlier, we need subclassing of UICollectionViewLayout to do that. We have to override lots of methods correctly, and it is error-prone.
With Collection View Compositional Layouts, you can make very complex layout even nested collection views with independently scrolling sections just within few lines of code.
See also:
- Advances in Collection View Layout
- Using CollectionView Compositional Layouts in Swift 5
- Move your cells left to right, up and down on iOS 13
| Nested Group | Orthogonal Scroll | Orthogonal Scroll |
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| List | Grid | Inset Grid | Column |
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| Distinct Sections | Badges | Nested Groups |
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| Mosaic | Tile Grid | Banner Tile Grid | Portlait Tile Grid |
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On Xcode 10.x, you can use the code as-is (drop-in replacement).
let itemSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1),
heightDimension: .fractionalHeight(1))
let item = NSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)
let groupSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1),
heightDimension: .absolute(44))
let group = NSCollectionLayoutGroup.horizontal(layoutSize: groupSize, subitems: [item])
let section = NSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
let layout = UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(section: section)
let collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: .zero, collectionViewLayout: layout)
...On Xcode 11 or later, add IBP prefix to related classes to avoid naming conflict. I want to fix it though...
let itemSize = IBPNSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1),
heightDimension: .fractionalHeight(1))
let item = IBPNSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)
let groupSize = IBPNSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1),
heightDimension: .absolute(44))
let group = IBPNSCollectionLayoutGroup.horizontal(layoutSize: groupSize, subitems: [item])
let section = IBPNSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
let layout = IBPUICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(section: section)
let collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: .zero, collectionViewLayout: layout)
...- Inter Item Spacing
- Inter Group Spacing
- Inter Section Spacing
- Scroll Direction
- Nested Groups
- Section Header/Footers (Partially supported)
- Orthogonal Scrolling (Partially supported)
- Orthogonal Scrolling Behaviour
- Pinned Section Header/Footers
- Decoration Views
- Flexible Spaces
- Estimated Size (Autosizing)
- RTL Support
- Visual Debug Description
- Perfomance Optimization
- Improve Compatibility with iOS 13 (Achieve drop-in replacement)
- Swift 5.0+ or Objective-C
- iOS 11.0+ (I have a plan to support much earlier versions!)
Add the following to your Podfile:
pod 'IBPCollectionViewCompositionalLayout'Add the following to your Cartfile:
github "kishikawakatsumi/IBPCollectionViewCompositionalLayout"
Thanks to Ryo Aoyama, the author of DiffableDataSources. A backport library of Diffable Data Sources. It is used in the sample code.
Thanks to Astemir Eleev. Most of the sample code are borrowed from his uicollectionview-layouts-kit.
The project is available under MIT Licence