How to make Supplementary View float in UICollectionView as Section Headers do in UITableView plain style

Question

I\'m struggling to achieve a \"floating section header\" effect with UICollectionView. Something that\'s been easy enough in UITableView (default b

Answer 1

In iOS9, Apple was kind enough to add a simple property in UICollectionViewFlowLayout called sectionHeadersPinToVisibleBounds.

With this, you can make the headers float like that in table views.

let layout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
layout.sectionHeadersPinToVisibleBounds = true
layout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 1
layout.minimumLineSpacing = 1
super.init(collectionViewLayout: layout)