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Learning Swift

Learning Swift

By : Andrew J Wagner
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Learning Swift

Learning Swift

4.8 (5)
By: Andrew J Wagner

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If you are looking to build iOS or OS X apps using the most modern technology, this book is ideal for you. You will find this book especially useful if you are new to programming or if you have yet to develop for iOS or OS X.
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Populating our photo grid


Now that we are maintaining a list of photos, we need to display it in our collection view. A collection view is populated when you provide a data source to it that implements its UICollectionViewDataSource protocol. Probably, the most common thing to do is to let the view controller be the data source. We can do this by opening Main.storyboard and control dragging from the collection view to the view controller:

After releasing the mouse, select dataSource from the menu. After that, all we need to do is implement the data source protocol. The two methods we need to implement are collectionView:numberOfItemsInSection: and collectionView:cellForItemAtIndexPath:. The former allows us to specify how many cells should be displayed and the latter allows us to customize each cell for a specific index in our list. It is easy for us to return the number of cells that we want:

extension ViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource {
    func collectionView(
        collectionView...

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