> "Complex" Layouts"
> Neither Android or iOS support this "Flow Layout" natively
I don't know about Android, but iOS has just that : UICollectionViewFlowLayout. It would be trivial to implement a tag list as he did.
> Neither Android or iOS support this "Flow Layout" natively
I don't know about Android, but iOS has just that : UICollectionViewFlowLayout. It would be trivial to implement a tag list as he did.
It's much better in Xcode 5.
Furthermore, you will be responsible for resizing the collection view and its sibling views or getting auto-layout working correctly to do part of this for you.
In the tag layout, it would be about as easy to just write line-wrapping code by hand, than to use a UICollectionView.
Possibly but the code you would be writing for UICollectionView would be mostly boiler plate. All the layout would be handled for you. Updating a few parameters would be quite easy and you could do it via IB or via code. Once you wrote this once it would also be quite portable.
No it won't. The tags are variable width, you have to implement something like sizeForItemAtIndexPath. You also must monitor the height of scrollable content region, so you have to monkey patch the collectionViewContent size (or KVO a non-public property), so you can resize the collection view and have the outer controller layout the subviews.
Collection Views don't really make sense when the collection view shouldn't scroll.