Avoid animation of UICollectionView after reloadItemsAtIndexPaths

Question

UICollectionView animate items after reloadItemsAtIndexPaths is called (fade animation).

Is there a way to avoid this animation?

iOS 6

Answer 1

I wrote a category on UICollectionView to do just that. The trick is to disable all animations while reloading:

if (!animated) {
    [CATransaction begin];
    [CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanTrue forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions];
}

[self reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:indexPaths];

if (!animated) {
    [CATransaction commit];
}