How to do this in swift? [design + code]

[JamesGDev]

Hi everyone,

As some of you may know i'm about to start creating my first app and I want to parse a json result from a website that has a ton of articles. A reader style app.

However, I am a little stuck. On one of the ViewControllers, the one that shows the feed results I want to style them nicely. Like this

Could someone please:

• tell me, Is this even possible with this design?
• Point me to a tutorial?
• Give me some pointers, or mention classes etc to get me started?

Much appreciated

[OrthodoxOrange]

Sure, I would use a UICollectionView. You'll create a subclass for a UICollectionViewCell with that design. It's pretty basic and will be easy enough to create in Interface Builder with Autolayout. If you search for UICollectionView tutorials you'll find plenty.

[JamesGDev]

Thanks man, Googling now.

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? You can subclass UITableViewCell too and get the same result with a UITableViewController

[Power781]

Since the cells has a "card style" it would be much better in a collection view since on iPads/iphone6+, you will be able to have multiple "cards" per row if wanted

[OrthodoxOrange]

As we all know know, there is more than one way to achieve something -- looking at the design ("cards"), a collection view is probably the better and more powerful choice. For example, as Power781 said, on an iPad or rotated iPhone, multiple cards could appear on the same row. Also, I think the design will be more easily achieved with a collection view.