View with continuous scroll; both horizontal and vertical

Question

I have been struggling with this assignment for quite some time now. What I would like to develop is a scrollview or collectionview which scrolls continuously both vertical

Answer 1

@rdelmar's answer worked like a charm, but I needed to do it in swift. Here's the conversion :)

class NodeMap : UICollectionViewController {
    @IBOutlet var activateNodeButton : UIBarButtonItem?
    var rows = 10
    var cols = 10
    override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return rows
    }
    override func numberOfSectionsInCollectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView) -> Int {
        return cols
    }
    override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        return collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier("node", forIndexPath: indexPath)
    }
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        self.collectionView!.collectionViewLayout = NodeLayout(itemWidth: 100.0, itemHeight: 100.0, space: 5.0)
    }
}

class NodeLayout : UICollectionViewFlowLayout {
    var itemWidth : CGFloat
    var itemHeight : CGFloat
    var space : CGFloat
    init(itemWidth: CGFloat, itemHeight: CGFloat, space: CGFloat) {
        self.itemWidth = itemWidth
        self.itemHeight = itemHeight
        self.space = space
        super.init()
    }
    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        self.itemWidth = 50
        self.itemHeight = 50
        self.space = 3
        super.init()
    }
    override func collectionViewContentSize() -> CGSize {
        let w : CGFloat = CGFloat(self.collectionView!.numberOfItemsInSection(0)) * (itemWidth + space)
        let h : CGFloat = CGFloat(self.collectionView!.numberOfSections()) * (itemHeight + space)
        return CGSizeMake(w, h)
    }
    override func layoutAttributesForItemAtIndexPath(indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes! {
        let attributes = UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes(forCellWithIndexPath: indexPath)
        let x : CGFloat = CGFloat(indexPath.row) * (itemWidth + space)
        let y : CGFloat = CGFloat(indexPath.section) + CGFloat(indexPath.section) * (itemHeight + space)
        attributes.frame = CGRectMake(x, y, itemWidth, itemHeight)
        return attributes
    }
    override func layoutAttributesForElementsInRect(rect: CGRect) -> [AnyObject]? {
        let minRow : Int = (rect.origin.x > 0) ? Int(floor(rect.origin.x/(itemWidth + space))) : 0
        let maxRow : Int = Int(floor(rect.size.width/(itemWidth + space)) + CGFloat(minRow))
        var attributes : Array = [UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes]()
        for i in 0...self.collectionView!.numberOfSections()-1 {
            for j in minRow...maxRow {
                attributes.append(self.layoutAttributesForItemAtIndexPath(NSIndexPath(forItem: j, inSection: i)))
            }
        }
        return attributes
    }
}