Paging UICollectionView by cells, not screen

Question

I have UICollectionView with horizontal scrolling and there are always 2 cells side-by-side per the entire screen. I need the scrolling to stop at the begining of a cell. With paging enabled, the collection view scrolls the whole page, which is 2 cells at once, and then it stops.

I need to enable scrolling by a single cell, or scrolling by multiple cells with stopping at the edge of the cell.

I tried to subclass UICollectionViewFlowLayout and to implement the method targetContentOffsetForProposedContentOffset, but so far I was only able to break my collection view and it stopped scrolling. Is there any easier way to achieve this and how, or do I really need to implement all methods of UICollectionViewFlowLayout subclass? Thanks.

Answer 1

Swift 3 version of Evya's answer:

func scrollViewWillEndDragging(_ scrollView: UIScrollView, withVelocity velocity: CGPoint, targetContentOffset: UnsafeMutablePointer<CGPoint>) {
  targetContentOffset.pointee = scrollView.contentOffset
    let pageWidth:Float = Float(self.view.bounds.width)
    let minSpace:Float = 10.0
    var cellToSwipe:Double = Double(Float((scrollView.contentOffset.x))/Float((pageWidth+minSpace))) + Double(0.5)
    if cellToSwipe < 0 {
        cellToSwipe = 0
    } else if cellToSwipe >= Double(self.articles.count) {
        cellToSwipe = Double(self.articles.count) - Double(1)
    }
    let indexPath:IndexPath = IndexPath(row: Int(cellToSwipe), section:0)
    self.collectionView.scrollToItem(at:indexPath, at: UICollectionViewScrollPosition.left, animated: true)


}

Answer 2

Ok so the proposed answers did'nt worked for me because I wanted to scroll by sections instead, and thus, have variable width page sizes

I did this (vertical only):

   var pagesSizes = [CGSize]()
   func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
        defer {
            lastOffsetY = scrollView.contentOffset.y
        }
        if collectionView.isDecelerating {
            var currentPage = 0
            var currentPageBottom = CGFloat(0)
            for pagesSize in pagesSizes {
                currentPageBottom += pagesSize.height
                if currentPageBottom > collectionView!.contentOffset.y {
                    break
                }
                currentPage += 1
            }
            if collectionView.contentOffset.y > currentPageBottom - pagesSizes[currentPage].height, collectionView.contentOffset.y + collectionView.frame.height < currentPageBottom {
                return // 100% of view within bounds
            }
            if lastOffsetY < collectionView.contentOffset.y {
                if currentPage + 1 != pagesSizes.count {
                    collectionView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: currentPageBottom), animated: true)
                }
            } else {
                collectionView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: currentPageBottom - pagesSizes[currentPage].height), animated: true)
            }
        }
    }

In this case, I calculate each page size beforehand using the section height + header + footer, and store it in the array. That's the pagesSizes member