cellForItemAtIndexPath returns nil after force scrolling to make it visible

ios, ios7, objective-c, uicollectionview

Solution

Based on your comments, it sounds like what you're ultimately after is the cell's frame. The way to do that without relying on existence of the cell is to ask the collection view's layout:

NSIndexPath *indexPath = ...;
UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *pose = [self.collectionView.collectionViewLayout layoutAttributesForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
CGRect frame = pose.frame;

Problem

So I am trying to write some code that scrolls a collection view to a certain index, then pulls a reference to the cell and does some logic. However I've noticed if that cell wasn't presently visible prior to the scroll, the `cellForItemAtIndexPath` call will return nil, causing the rest of my logic to fail. ``` [_myView scrollToItemAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:index inSection:0] atScrollPosition:UICollectionViewScrollPositionTop animated:NO]; //Tried with and without this line, thinking maybe this would trigger a redraw [_myView reloadData]; //returns nil if cell was off-screen before scroll UICollectionViewCell *cell = [_myView cellForItemAtIndexPath: [NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:index inSection:0]]; ``` Is there some other method I have to call to cause the `cellForItemAtIndexPath` to return something for a cell that suddenly came into view as a result of the scroll immediately preceding it?

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