Make UILabel focusable and tappable (tvOS)

Question

I\'m trying to implement 6 lines high description label and I want it to be focusable. Ideally that would mean extending UILabel class to make a custom component. I tried th

Answer 1

Use a collection view with just one cell and add transform to cell and change cell background color in didUpdateFocusInContext when focus moves to cell.

override func didUpdateFocusInContext(context: UIFocusUpdateContext, withAnimationCoordinator coordinator: UIFocusAnimationCoordinator) {
    coordinator.addCoordinatedAnimations({
        if self.focused {
            self.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.01, 1.01)
            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
            self.textLabel.textColor = .blackColor()
        }
        else {
            self.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1, 1)
            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
            self.textLabel.textColor = .whiteColor()
        }
        }, completion: nil)
}

As an additional step you could try to extract the color of the image if you are using the image as background like iTunes and use that for Visual effect view behind the cell.

Also you can apply transform to the collectionView in the video controller to make it look like in focus