How to Resize Cell Without Reload — Self Resizing (iOS 16)

WWDC 2022 brings a lot of new features. One of them self resizing cell (it supports Collection View and Table View). Now we can easily resize cell with just one line code. Ok, let’s see.

iOS 16 has new variable for UICollectionView and UITableView selfSizingInvalidation. Its default value is enabled. If you use UIListContentConfiguration cell automatically resize when the configuration changed. Also, you can resize it whenever you want. This blog is only for manual self resizing. If you use UIListContentConfiguration it updates automatically.

How to resize cell

I create simple collection view and setup.

import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet private weak var collectionView: UICollectionView!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        collectionView.dataSource = self
        collectionView.register(UINib(nibName: "CustomCollectionViewCell", bundle: .main), forCellWithReuseIdentifier: "CustomCollectionViewCell")
    }
}
// MARK: - UICollectionViewDataSource
extension ViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource {
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return 50
    }
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "CustomCollectionViewCell", for: indexPath)
    }
}

Also here is Cell. After cell awake random seconds later it updates and I called invalidateIntrinsicContentSizefunction. Cell resize with animation.

import UIKit
class CustomCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell {
    @IBOutlet private weak var stackView: UIStackView!
    @IBOutlet private weak var label: UILabel!
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    ]
    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + ([1.0, 2.0, 3.0].randomElement() ?? 1.0)) { [weak self] in
            self?.label.text = self?.lorems.randomElement() ?? ""
            // Manually self resize
            self?.invalidateIntrinsicContentSize()
        }
    }
}

Also you can disable animation:

// Manually self resize
UIView.performWithoutAnimation {
	self?.invalidateIntrinsicContentSize()
}

Note: Xcode 14 beta-1 has a glitch when used without animation self resizing.

Thanks for reading.

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