UICollectionView Horizontal Paging not centered

Question

I have a horizontal scrolling collectionView with each cell the size of the view. When I page through the collectionView it doesn't page by cell. The cells aren't in the center of the screen. I've tried a bunch of things to try to fix it and haven't had any luck. Here's a video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXsxWelk16w Any ideas?

Answer 1

Remove spaces between items. For horizontal scrolling collection view set minimum line spacing to 0. You can do this with interface builder or with method of UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout protocol:

- (CGFloat)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView 
                   layout:(UICollectionViewLayout *)collectionViewLayout 
        minimumLineSpacingForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section {
    return 0;    
}

Another way is making your cell's width less than collectionView's width for a value of horizontal space between items. Then add section insets with left and right insets that equal a half of horizontal space between items. For example, your minimum line spacing is 10:

- (CGFloat)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
                   layout:(UICollectionViewLayout *)collectionViewLayout
        minimumLineSpacingForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section {
    return 10;
}

- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView 
                  layout:(UICollectionViewLayout *)collectionViewLayout 
  sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    return CGSizeMake(collectionView.frame.size.width - 10, collectionView.frame.size.height);
}

- (UIEdgeInsets)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView 
                        layout:(UICollectionViewLayout *)collectionViewLayout 
        insetForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section {
    return UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 5, 0, 5);
}

And third way: manipulate collectionView scroll in scrollViewDidEndDecelerating: method:

- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
    if (scrollView == self.collectionView) {
        CGPoint currentCellOffset = self.collectionView.contentOffset;
        currentCellOffset.x += self.collectionView.frame.size.width / 2;
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.collectionView indexPathForItemAtPoint:currentCellOffset];
        [self.collectionView scrollToItemAtIndexPath:indexPath
                                    atScrollPosition:UICollectionViewScrollPositionCenteredHorizontally
                                            animated:YES];
    }
}