At the moment I'm trying to create an UICollectionView
, that should display a simple excel-like-spreadsheet
, with rows
and columns
. This should be an easy task with UICollectionViews
, I believed. And I really would like to do the implementation in UICollectionView
, not in any grid framework
.
But at the moment I'm hanging a little bit. What I've figured out is, that I unfortunately can't use a UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout
, because this only supports scrolling
in either horizontally
or vertically
direction. But I need scrolling
in both directions.
Therefore I have to use a UICollectionViewLayout
, but for this I didn't find good examples, how to use it. Has anyone of you an example, how to subclass an UICollectionViewLayout
to support rows
and columns
?
Thanks in advance.
UICollectionViewFlowLayout
definitely can't - "The grid layout scrolls along one axis only, either horizontally or vertically."
It is a subclass of UICollectionViewLayout
. Seems like you could create your own subclass of UICollectionViewLayout
and scroll in both directions.
What do you mean by page, you want to do paging like a scrollview
? I'm wondering about using UICollectionViewFlowLayout in a UICollectionView
for vertical scrolling, inside a UIScrollView
for horizontal scrolling.
I've added an example of using a custom layout to implement a simple horizontal & vertical scrolling grid here https://github.com/neildavis/MyCollectionView
My example uses PSTCollectionView since I needed iOS 5 support, but it's API compatible with built in UICollectionView. (Actually it uses the compatibility classes (PSUICollectionView etc) provided to ensure it uses a UICollectionView on iOS 6 and falls back to using PSTCollectionView etc on iOS 5.) Just remove the 'PS' prefix on these to revert to iOS 6 only UIKit implementation.
Answer that doesn't require dissecting a 3 sample projects
In your UICollectionViewLayout subclass:
- Implement
-(CGSize)[collectionViewContentSize]
and return a size larger in height and width than the UICollectionView
's size. (Accessible via: self.collectionView.frame.size
)
- Calculate layout for your
UICollectionViewCell
s within the content size rather than the frame size.
Note: Make sure scrolling is enabled in the UICollectionView. (It's on by default.)
I needed something similar. I created a Custom CollectionViewLayout.
https://github.com/akashraje/BidirectionalCollectionViewLayout