tomhamming/collection_view_auto_size_reorder

Example of issues with drag-to-reorder in a UICollectionView with self-sizing cells

Reordering in UICollectionView with self-sizing cells

UICollectionView has awesome drag-to-reorder support. But if you use self-sizing cells, at least as of iOS 11, during a drag operation it reverts all cells to its estimated cell size (defaults to 50 x 50). This is no fun.

This repo started out as an illustration of the issue. Then I found a way around it:

• Keep one instance of your cell class around as a sizing cell
• Configure it with your data, then ask it for its preferred size (systemLayoutFittingSize)
• Return this size from sizeForItemAtIndexPath
• Cache this information in a dictionary of NSIndexPath to NSValue so you don't have to continuously recalculate sizes (which gets expensive on non-trivial layouts).