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

Put this into your collection view delegate. It considers more of the the basic flow layout settings than the other answers and is thereby more generic.

- (UIEdgeInsets)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout insetForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section
{
    NSInteger cellCount = [collectionView.dataSource collectionView:collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:section];
    if( cellCount >0 )
    {
        CGFloat cellWidth = ((UICollectionViewFlowLayout*)collectionViewLayout).itemSize.width+((UICollectionViewFlowLayout*)collectionViewLayout).minimumInteritemSpacing;
        CGFloat totalCellWidth = cellWidth*cellCount + spacing*(cellCount-1);
        CGFloat contentWidth = collectionView.frame.size.width-collectionView.contentInset.left-collectionView.contentInset.right;
        if( totalCellWidth

swift version (thanks g0ld2k):

extension CommunityConnectViewController: UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout {
    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAtIndex section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {

    // Translated from Objective-C version at: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27656363/309736

        let cellCount = CGFloat(viewModel.getNumOfItemsInSection(0))

        if cellCount > 0 {
            let flowLayout = collectionViewLayout as! UICollectionViewFlowLayout
            let cellWidth = flowLayout.itemSize.width + flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing
            let totalCellWidth = cellWidth*cellCount + spacing*(cellCount-1)
            let contentWidth = collectionView.frame.size.width - collectionView.contentInset.left - collectionView.contentInset.right

            if (totalCellWidth < contentWidth) {
                let padding = (contentWidth - totalCellWidth) / 2.0
                return UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, padding, 0, padding)
            }
        }

        return UIEdgeInsetsZero
    }
}