Chapter    3

Collection Views Quick Start

In this chapter, you’ll start your exploration of collection views. It begins with an overview of what collection views are and some examples of how they’re used in practice. Then in the second section, you’ll build a simple “Hello, world”-style collection view app to introduce you to the components behind the user interface and help you to contextualize the detail that’s going to come in later chapters.

If you’re just starting to use collection views, it’s worth taking some time to build a very simple one from scratch before diving into the gnarly details. However, if you’ve reached the stage where you feel more confident about how the components of the collection view jigsaw fit together and want to ...

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