Snap to center of a cell when scrolling UICollectionView horizontally

Question

I know some people have asked this question before but they were all about UITableViews or UIScrollViews and I couldn't get the accepted solution to work for me. What I would like is the snapping effect when scrolling through my UICollectionView horizontally - much like what happens in the iOS AppStore. iOS 9+ is my target build so please look at the UIKit changes before answering this.

Thanks.

Answer 1

While originally I was using Objective-C, I since switched so Swift and the original accepted answer did not suffice.

I ended up creating a UICollectionViewLayout subclass which provides the best (imo) experience as opposed to the other functions which alter content offset or something similar when the user has stopped scrolling.

class SnappingCollectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewFlowLayout {

    override func targetContentOffset(forProposedContentOffset proposedContentOffset: CGPoint, withScrollingVelocity velocity: CGPoint) -> CGPoint {
        guard let collectionView = collectionView else { return super.targetContentOffset(forProposedContentOffset: proposedContentOffset, withScrollingVelocity: velocity) }

        var offsetAdjustment = CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude
        let horizontalOffset = proposedContentOffset.x + collectionView.contentInset.left

        let targetRect = CGRect(x: proposedContentOffset.x, y: 0, width: collectionView.bounds.size.width, height: collectionView.bounds.size.height)

        let layoutAttributesArray = super.layoutAttributesForElements(in: targetRect)

        layoutAttributesArray?.forEach({ (layoutAttributes) in
            let itemOffset = layoutAttributes.frame.origin.x
            if fabsf(Float(itemOffset - horizontalOffset)) < fabsf(Float(offsetAdjustment)) {
                offsetAdjustment = itemOffset - horizontalOffset
            }
        })

        return CGPoint(x: proposedContentOffset.x + offsetAdjustment, y: proposedContentOffset.y)
    }
}

For the most native feeling deceleration with the current layout subclass, make sure to set the following:

collectionView?.decelerationRate = UIScrollViewDecelerationRateFast