Earlier this year I mentioned MGBox, a library providing a UITableView replacement with great default styling, a simpler syntax, and easy customization.
The developer of MGBox, Matt Greenfeld, has created a new library MGBox2 that adds many new features to the excellent MGBox including the capability of creating UICollectionView like grids.
Here’s a listing of features from the readme:
Layout Features
- Table layouts (similar to UITableView, but less fuss)
- Grid layouts (similar to UICollectionView, but less fuss)
- Table rows automatically layout NSStrings, UIImages, and multiline text
- Animated adding/removing/reordering rows, items, sections, etc
- Margins, Padding, zIndex, Fixed Positioning, and more
- Optional asynchronous blocks based layout
- Optional scroll view box edge snapping
Code Convenience Features
- Blocks based tap, swipe, and hold gesture recognisers
- Blocks based custom event observing and triggering
- Blocks based UIControl event handlers
- Blocks based keypath observers
- UIView easy frame accessors
Here are a couple of images from the readme showing the tableviews and the new grid feature in action:
You can find MGBox with documentation, and an example on Github here.
Definitely a first rate library worth checking out.
Original article: Open Source Library Providing Custom TableViews and A UICollectionView Like Grids
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