UICollectionView in landscape on iPhone X

Question

When iPhone X is used landscape, you\'re supposed to check safeAreaInsets to make suitably large gutters on the left and right. UITableView has the new insetsContentViewsT

Answer 1

UICollectionView is intended to be flexible for a wide variety of layouts. The most common layouts are grids with multiple rows and columns, but it's possible to create non-grid layouts with UICollectionView.

UITableView, on the other hand, is designed for full-width cells.

Therefore, it makes sense that UITableView would have built-in support for dealing with safe area insets, since table view layouts will always be affected by it. Because UICollectionView uses custom layouts, it makes sense to solve these issues on a per-implementation basis instead of trying to provide a one-size-fits-all solution.