In this tutorial, I will cover how to reorder cells in UICollectionView using drag & drop. I have seen many different approaches on how to do this, some are working decent and some are not. That's why I will show you the approach that is tested and working 100%.
To make this tutorial shorter, I will only present how to do the reordering and won't show all the required delegate methods. Since you got here, I count that you already know the UICollectionView basics.
UICollectionViewDelegate
We will start by using two delegate methods from the UICollectionViewDelegate protocol.
1 Enable the use of moving items in the UICollectionView by calling canMoveItemAt delegate method. Passing true will enable this feature.
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, canMoveItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {return true}
2 Next, we will implement the moveItemAt delegate method where you will intercept the starting index and the ending index of the both items that are switching places.
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, moveItemAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) {print(“Starting Index: \(sourceIndexPath.item)”)print(“Ending Index: \(destinationIndexPath.item)”)}
UILongPressGestureRecognizer
For a better control of the gestures in the UICollectionView we will implement a UILongPressGestureRecognizer.
Note that these interactive functions work for iOS 9 and above.
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