How to adjust height of UICollectionView to be the height of the content size of the UICollectionView?

Question

I would like the UICollectionView (The red one) to shrink to the height of the content size in this case UICollectionViewCells(the yellow ones) because there is a lot of emp

Answer 1

I ended up, by subclassing the UICollectionView and overriding some methods as follows.

• Returning self.collectionViewLayout.collectionViewContentSize for intrinsicContentSize makes sure, to always have the correct size
• Then just call it whenever it might change (like on reloadData)

Code:

override func reloadData() {
    super.reloadData()
    self.invalidateIntrinsicContentSize()
}

override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize {
    return self.collectionViewLayout.collectionViewContentSize
}

But be aware, that you lose "cell re-using", if you display large sets of data, eventhough they don't fit on the screen.