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The Complete Guide

Second Edition

Ash Furrow

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iOS UICollectionView: The Complete Guide, Second Edition

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For my wife, who inspires me in every way.

I want to thank Angie Doyle and Trina MacDonald at Pearson publishing for contacting me about writing this book. I was planning on writing an ebook about something, but with their guidance and resources, I know this book is way more awesome than anything I could have done on my own.

Rich Wardwell and Niklas Saers have been wonderful technical editors, offering comprehensive advice concerning clarity of both my code and my prose.

I am a strong believer in the open source community, and this book relies on some open source software. Some of it I wrote myself, but some if I didnt. Id like to thank Mark Pospesel for his contributions to GitHub in Introducing UICollectionViews. Mark specializes in mathematics, and while writing this book, its been great to be able to rely on his expertise.

Speaking of the open source community, no book discussing UICollectionView would be complete without a tip of the hat to Peter Steinbergers work on PSTCollectionView, a 100% API-compatible replacement for UICollectionView that offers backward compatibility with iOS 4.3+. Most of the techniques discussed in this book are directly applicable to PSTCollectionView, and the project is advancing every day. If you need to support older versions of iOS, use PSTCollectionView.

Finally, I could not have completed this book without the support of my wife. Her constant prodding about deadlines made sure I was only a little late most of the time. I am lucky to have such a supportive partner who understands and encourages my compulsion to create and share.

Ash Furrow has been developing iOS applications since 2009. Hes made several of his own applications available on the store and headed the iOS team at 500px to ship their critically acclaimed app. After spending a year with Teehan+Lax, hes moved on to live abroad and contribute to the open source community.

When hes not busy writing books or blog posts, Ash enjoys digital and analogue photography, often developing his own film.

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At WWDC 2012, Apple unveiled UICollectionView, enabling a new way for apps to render content to users. Collection views are a content- and layout-agnostic tool for developers to display content in apps. User interfaces created with collection views are some of the most immersive, distinctive interfaces in iOS applications.