Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved over time, and how are modern APIs like compositional layouts and diffable data sources changing the way collection views are built and used?

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Links

• Ben on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Get a 20% discount on NSScreencast
• Ben’s new video series “Working with modern collection views”
• UICollectionViewFlowLayout
• The NSScreencast iOS app
• UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource
• UICollectionView’s batch update API
• NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot
• UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout
• CSS FlexBox
• UIListContentConfiguration
• Using UICollectionView to build lists on iOS 14
• The new CellRegistration API
• Tonal Therapy
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk