I'm building a UICollectionView
and my custom cells will contain two labels and one image.
Each image is downloaded asynchronously so I don't know it's size until the download it's complete.
Once is downloaded, I want to adapt each cell to re-layout it's content and frame to fit in height the image just downloaded.
As UICollectionViewLayout
, I'm using CHTCollectionViewWaterfallLayout
To download the image asynchronously I'm using SDWebImage, like this:
[cell.imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.domain.com/path/to/image.jpg"]
placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.png"]
completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType)
{... some completion code here ...}];
QUESTION:
What is the right approach to resize each UICollectionViewCell
right after the image is downloaded?
You should just be able to invalidate your collection view layout in an animation block when the image comes back. Things might get a little complicated if more than one image finishes completion at once, but this should work:
[cell.imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.domain.com/path/to/image.jpg"]
placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"placeholder.png"]
completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType)^{
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3f animations:^{
[self.collectionView.collectionViewLayout invalidateLayout];
}];
}];
Then just return a different size in the appropriate delegate method.
- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return /* a different size if the image is done downloading yet */;
}
To resize collection view cells, you could reload the collection view and return the size of you collection view cells dynamically in the method:
- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UICollectionViewCell *cell = [collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
return [cell size];
}
In cases when the cell's size is dynamic, get the cell from the index path and return its size based on the size of the image. I usually create a method for the cell to return a dynamic size, like in the example above. You can use UIImage's size property to help return the size based on the image.
You could try to reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:
for the cells that finished loading.