Why UICollectionView's UICollectionViewCell is

Question

I have a UICollectionView that is made up of a custom UICollectionViewCell subclass. The cell's are displaying correctly and are responding correctly to user's touches by firing this method:

- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

However, I am of the understanding that when a user touches the cell, it should highlight (in blue) and then the highlight should go away when the user lifts their finger. This is not happening. Any thoughts on why?

Here is some relevant code:

In the UICollectionView's datasource:

@implementation SplitCheckViewCollection

- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"ReceiptCellIdentifier";
    SplitCheckCollectionCell *cell = (SplitCheckCollectionCell *)[collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.cellName.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%i",@"#",indexPath.row+1];

    return cell;
}

In the UICollectionViewCell's implementation:

@implementation SplitCheckCollectionCell

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
        NSArray *arrayOfViews = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"SplitCheckCollectionCell" owner:self options:nil];

        if ([arrayOfViews count] < 1) {
            return nil;
        }

        if (![[arrayOfViews objectAtIndex:0] isKindOfClass:[UICollectionViewCell class]]) {
            return nil;
        }

        self = [arrayOfViews objectAtIndex:0];    
    }
    return self;
}

Answer 1

We can create our own highlight and unhighlight effect on collectionView cell by adding and removing a temporary view with some background color as follows:

 -(void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didHighlightItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

    {

         UICollectionViewCell *collectionViewCell = (UICollectionViewCell *)  
                            [collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];

     UIView *tapHighlightView = (UIView*)[collectionViewCell.contentView 
                                  viewWithTag:10];

     if (!tapHighlightView) {

                tapHighlightView = [[UIView alloc] 
                        initWithFrame:collectionViewCell.contentView.frame];
                tapHighlightView.backgroundColor =[UIColor blackColor alpha:0.4];
                tapHighlightView.tag = 10;
                [collectionViewCell.contentView addSubview:tapHighlightView];
            }
    }

    -(void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didUnhighlightItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

        UICollectionViewCell *collectionViewCell = (UICollectionViewCell *)[collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
        UIView *tapHighlightView = (UIView*)[collectionViewCell.contentView viewWithTag:10];
        if (tapHighlightView != nil) {
            [tapHighlightView removeFromSuperview];
        }
    }

Answer 2

As SAE points out you will have to manually do it in the cell on highlight. Easiest way I found is to use the tableview didHighlightRowAtIndexPath and didUnhighlightRowAtIndexPath methods which sets a bool "highlighted" in your UICollectionCell instance and then override that property in a subclassed UICollectionCell class. The beauty of this is that the animation is already there for you. You can also do the same in a UITableView/UITableViewCell situation.

So in your UICollectionView using the UICollectionViewDelegate method:

func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didHighlightItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    collectionView.selectItemAtIndexPath(indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: UICollectionViewScrollPosition.None)
}

func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didUnhighlightItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    collectionView.deselectItemAtIndexPath(indexPath, animated: true)
}

Then in your UICollectionViewCell subclass add this:

override var highlighted:Bool{
    didSet{
        println("Highlighted is set \(highlighted)")
        if(highlighted == true){
            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
        }else{
            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.blueColor()
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

you can try this code :

- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)colView didHighlightItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UICollectionViewCell* cell = [colView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}

and

- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)colView didUnhighlightItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UICollectionViewCell* cell = [colView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = nil;
}