UICollectionView: One Row or Column

ios, iphone, objective-c, uicollectionview, xcode

Solution

I am guessing you are using the built in `Flow Layout`. However, for your case, you should make a custom `UICollectionView Layout`. Make it subclass of `UICollectionViewFlowLayout` and add this code in the `init` method:

- (id)init {
    if ((self = [super init])) {
        self.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirectionHorizontal;
        self.minimumLineSpacing = 10000.0f;
    }
    return self; 
}

The `minimumLineSpacing` is the key to making it have one line here.

I hope this helps!

Problem

I want to use `UICollectionView` to display a horizontal scrollable list of thumbnails, however, I want this to be a single row. On another view, I'm displaying the thumbnails in a `UICollectionView` but this one scrolls vertically and it's in a single column. Currently, the way I'm doing this is by changing the size of the collection view to only be big enough for one item so it autowraps and works, but now I'm dealing with variable sized items so it doesn't work anymore. How do you make a `UICollectionView` display one row or column?

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