Custom Footer view for UICollectionview in swift

Question

I am re-writting an objective-C app of min in swift and decided that a collection view works better then a tableview in my case. So i have the collectionview all set up exac

Answer 1

Collection views handle headers and footers differently than table views. You'll need to:

1. Register your footer view class using:

   registerClass(myFooterViewClass, forSupplementaryViewOfKind: UICollectionElementKindSectionFooter, withReuseIdentifier: "myFooterView")
   

2. Either set the headerReferenceSize on your collection view layout or implement collectionView:layout:referenceSizeForHeaderInSection: in your delegate.

3. Return the footer view from the following method in your dataSource:

   func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind kind: String, atIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionReusableView {
       let view = collectionView.dequeueReusableSupplementaryViewOfKind(UICollectionElementKindSectionFooter, withReuseIdentifier: "myFooterView", forIndexPath: indexPath)
       // configure footer view
       return view
   }
   

I think that's everything!