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Registering Collection View Cells in iOS 14

In my last post, I looked at handling diffable data sources with different types of object data, focusing primarily on the venerable UITableView for my examples. We looked at a simple if…else construct to swap between cell types based on the type of the item from the data source and related snapshot. While this methodContinue reading “Registering Collection View Cells in iOS 14”

Using iOS Diffable Data Sources with Different Object Types

Since iOS 13, we’ve been able to revamp the way our table and collection views work by using diffable data source classes (UITableViewDiffableDataSource and UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource respectively) and snapshots. This provides the advantage of being able to write less code for these types of views, while making our state management much more robust and less likelyContinue reading “Using iOS Diffable Data Sources with Different Object Types”