How can I detect the scroll direction from the UICollectionView?

Question

I have a UICollectionView. I want to detect scroll direction. I have a two different animation style for scroll down and scroll up. So I must learn scroll direction.

CGPoint scrollVelocity = [self.collectionView.panGestureRecognizer
velocityInView:self.collectionView.superview];

if (scrollVelocity.y > 0.0f)   
NSLog(@"scroll up");

else if(scrollVelocity.y < 0.0f)    
NSLog(@"scroll down");

This is just work at finger touched. Not work for me

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Try this:

Add this somewhere in you header:

@property (nonatomic) CGFloat lastContentOffset;

Then override the scrollViewDidScroll: method:

#pragma mark - UIScrollViewDelegate

- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    if (self.lastContentOffset > scrollView.contentOffset.y)
    {
        NSLog(@"Scrolling Up");
    }
    else if (self.lastContentOffset < scrollView.contentOffset.y)
    {
        NSLog(@"Scrolling Down");
    }

    self.lastContentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
}

Found in Finding the direction of scrolling in a UIScrollView?

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '16 at 10:34

5

this is the best way to get scroll direction, hope this helps you

- (void)scrollViewWillEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView withVelocity:(CGPoint)velocity targetContentOffset:(inout CGPoint *)targetContentOffset {

    CGPoint targetPoint = *targetContentOffset;
    CGPoint currentPoint = scrollView.contentOffset;

    if (targetPoint.y > currentPoint.y) {
        NSLog(@"up");
    }
    else {
        NSLog(@"down");
    }
}

answered Apr 15 '16 at 10:34

Patel Jigar

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Dragging... Isn't it about using a finger to drag? Scroll even might happen without a finger of a user, isn't it? – iWheelBuy Feb 22 '20 at 17:41

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 12 '20 at 02:22

Swift 4.2

private var lastContentOffset: CGFloat = 0
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {

    if lastContentOffset > scrollView.contentOffset.y && lastContentOffset < scrollView.contentSize.height - scrollView.frame.height {
        // move up
        print("move up")
        originalHeight ()
    } else if lastContentOffset < scrollView.contentOffset.y && scrollView.contentOffset.y > 0 {
        // move down
        print("move down")
        minimizeHeaderView()
    }

    // update the new position acquired
    lastContentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset.y
}

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 23 '16 at 22:21

I was trying to find a way to detect if the user is mostly trying to pull vertically or horizontally the scrollView. I give you my solution, I hope it can be useful to anyone :

CGPoint _lastContentOffset;

- (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
    _lastContentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset;
}

- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {

    if (ABS(_lastContentOffset.x - scrollView.contentOffset.x) < ABS(_lastContentOffset.y - scrollView.contentOffset.y)) {
        NSLog(@"Scrolled Vertically");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Scrolled Horizontally");
    }

}

This work find for me and I use this to avoid the scrollView to move horizontally when scrolling vertically and opposite.

How can I detect the scroll direction from the UICollectionView?

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