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Collection View Outlines in iOS 14
In an earlier article, I introduced collection view lists, new in iOS 14, which allow a collection view, or a section of a collection view, to imitate a table view. Collection view lists are the basis for yet another new iOS 14 feature: outlines. As Lovely as a Tree An outline is a way of …
Collection View Lists in iOS 14, Part 2
In an earlier article, I introduced collection view lists, a new feature of iOS 14. I showed how you can easily make a collection view that looks pretty much just like a table view. Now I’d like to talk about some additional table view appearances and behaviors and how collection view lists implement them. List …
Collection View Lists in iOS 14
One of the most significant innovations in iOS 14 is that a collection view can be configured to look and behave like a table view. A collection view of that kind is called a collection view list. A collection view list isn’t a matter of mere layout. Laying out a collection view as a single …
The Developer’s Guide to Cell Background Configuration in iOS 14
In an earlier article, I introduced iOS 14’s new content configuration architecture. As I showed in that article, this architecture is useful particularly in a cell, meaning a UITableViewCell or a UICollectionViewCell: A cell has a contentConfiguration property; whatever content view the cell’s content configuration creates, the cell makes that its own contentView, automatically. To …
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