How to center align the cells of a UICollectionView?

Question

I am currently using UICollectionView for the user interface grid, and it works fine. However, I\'d like to be enable horizontal scrolling. The grid supports 8

Answer 1

Similar to other answers, this is a dynamic answer that should work for static sized cells. The one modification I made is that I put the padding on both sides. If I didn't do this, I experienced problems.

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Objective-C

- (UIEdgeInsets)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewFlowLayout*)collectionViewLayout insetForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section {

    NSInteger numberOfItems = [collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:section];
    CGFloat combinedItemWidth = (numberOfItems * collectionViewLayout.itemSize.width) + ((numberOfItems - 1) * collectionViewLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing);
    CGFloat padding = (collectionView.frame.size.width - combinedItemWidth) / 2;

    return UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, padding, 0, padding);
}

Swift

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAt section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {
    let flowLayout = collectionViewLayout as! UICollectionViewFlowLayout
    let numberOfItems = CGFloat(collectionView.numberOfItems(inSection: section))
    let combinedItemWidth = (numberOfItems * flowLayout.itemSize.width) + ((numberOfItems - 1)  * flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing)
    let padding = (collectionView.frame.width - combinedItemWidth) / 2
    return UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: padding, bottom: 0, right: padding)
}

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Also, if you are still are experiencing problems, make sure that you set both the minimumInteritemSpacing and minimumLineSpacing to the same values since these values seem to be interrelated.

UICollectionViewFlowLayout *flowLayout = (UICollectionViewFlowLayout *)self.collectionView.collectionViewLayout;
flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 20.0;
flowLayout.minimumLineSpacing = 20.0;