UICollectionView snap onto cell when scrolling hor

Question

I know some people have asked this question before but they were all about UITableViews or UIScrollViews and I couldn't get the accepted solution to work for me. What I would like is the snapping effect when scrolling through my UICollectionView horizontally - much like what happens in the iOS AppStore. iOS 9+ is my target build so please look at the UIKit changes before answering this.

Thanks.

Answer 1

For what it is worth here is a simple calculation that I use (in swift):

func snapToNearestCell(_ collectionView: UICollectionView) {
    for i in 0..<collectionView.numberOfItems(inSection: 0) {

        let itemWithSpaceWidth = collectionViewFlowLayout.itemSize.width + collectionViewFlowLayout.minimumLineSpacing
        let itemWidth = collectionViewFlowLayout.itemSize.width

        if collectionView.contentOffset.x <= CGFloat(i) * itemWithSpaceWidth + itemWidth / 2 {                
            let indexPath = IndexPath(item: i, section: 0)
            collectionView.scrollToItem(at: indexPath, at: .centeredHorizontally, animated: true)
            break
        }
    }
}

Call where you need it. I call it in

func scrollViewDidEndDragging(scrollView: UIScrollView, willDecelerate decelerate: Bool) {
    snapToNearestCell(scrollView)
}

And

func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    snapToNearestCell(scrollView)
}

Where collectionViewFlowLayout could come from:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

    // Set up collection view
    collectionViewFlowLayout = collectionView.collectionViewLayout as! UICollectionViewFlowLayout
}