A collection of custom UICollectionView layouts for iOS that provide fluid, animated scrolling experiences.
Swinflate is a Swift library that provides custom UICollectionView layouts for iOS apps, featuring animated scrolling effects like inflating cells and horizontal stacking. It solves the problem of bland, standard collection views by offering easy-to-integrate layouts that create more fluid and engaging user interfaces.
iOS developers building apps with UICollectionView who want to enhance scrolling animations and visual effects without complex custom implementations.
Developers choose Swinflate for its pre-built, polished layout effects that are simple to integrate, saving time compared to crafting custom UICollectionViewLayout subclasses from scratch.
A bunch of layouts providing light and seamless experiences in your Collection View
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Setup is straightforward by passing layout instances like SWInflateLayout() directly to UICollectionView, as shown in the usage examples with minimal code.
Provides polished inflating/deflating and horizontal stacking animations, demonstrated in the README GIFs, enhancing user experience without custom implementation.
Both layouts allow enabling or disabling paging via the isPagingEnabled property, offering precise scroll behavior as noted in the usage notes.
Designed to be ruthlessly simple, integrating with basic UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout methods for item size, keeping setup lightweight.
Restricted to single-row, horizontal collection views only, as stated in the usage section, making it unsuitable for vertical or complex grid layouts.
Offers only two preset layouts with simple toggles like hasStackEffect, lacking advanced animation tweaking or configuration beyond the defaults.
Requires implementing the sizeForItem delegate method for cell dimensions, adding extra steps compared to some auto-sizing alternatives.
As a smaller library with version 1.0.3, it has limited documentation, community resources, and likely fewer updates than larger projects.