UICollectionView current visible cell index

I am using UICollectionView first time in my iPad application. I have set UICollectionView such that its size and cell size is same, means only once cell is displayed at a time.

Problem: Now when user scroll UICollectionView I need to know which cell is visible I have to update other UI elements on change. I didn't find any delegate method for this. How can I achieve this?

Code:

[self.mainImageCollection setTag:MAIN_IMAGE_COLLECTION_VIEW];
[self.mainImageCollection registerClass:[InspirationMainImageCollectionCell class] forCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"cellIdentifier"];
[self.mainImageFlowLayout setScrollDirection:UICollectionViewScrollDirectionHorizontal];
[self.mainImageFlowLayout setMinimumInteritemSpacing:0.0f];
[self.mainImageFlowLayout setMinimumLineSpacing:0.0f];
self.mainImageFlowLayout.minimumLineSpacing = 0;
[self.mainImageCollection setPagingEnabled:YES];
[self.mainImageCollection setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
[self.mainImageCollection setCollectionViewLayout:self.mainImageFlowLayout];

What I have tried:

As UICollectionView conforms to UIScrollView, I got when user scroll ends with UIScrollViewDelegate method

-(void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView

But inside above function how can I get current visible cell index of UICollectionView ?

indexPathsForVisibleItems might work for most situations, but sometimes it returns an array with more than one index path and it can be tricky figuring out the one you want. In those situations, you can do something like this:

CGRect visibleRect = (CGRect){.origin = self.collectionView.contentOffset, .size = self.collectionView.bounds.size};
CGPoint visiblePoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(visibleRect), CGRectGetMidY(visibleRect));
NSIndexPath *visibleIndexPath = [self.collectionView indexPathForItemAtPoint:visiblePoint];

This works especially well when each item in your collection view takes up the whole screen.

Swift version

let visibleRect = CGRect(origin: collectionView.contentOffset, size: collectionView.bounds.size)
let visiblePoint = CGPoint(x: visibleRect.midX, y: visibleRect.midY)
let visibleIndexPath = collectionView.indexPathForItem(at: visiblePoint)

The method [collectionView visibleCells] give you all visibleCells array you want. Use it when you want to get

- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
    for (UICollectionViewCell *cell in [self.mainImageCollection visibleCells]) {
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.mainImageCollection indexPathForCell:cell];
        NSLog(@"%@",indexPath);
    }
}

Update to Swift 5:

func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    for cell in yourCollectionView.visibleCells {
        let indexPath = yourCollectionView.indexPath(for: cell)
        print(indexPath)
    }
}

Swift 5:

func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    var visibleRect = CGRect()

    visibleRect.origin = collectionView.contentOffset
    visibleRect.size = collectionView.bounds.size

    let visiblePoint = CGPoint(x: visibleRect.midX, y: visibleRect.midY)

    guard let indexPath = collectionView.indexPathForItem(at: visiblePoint) else { return } 

    print(indexPath)
}

Working Answers Combined In Swift 2.2 :

 func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(scrollView: UIScrollView) {

        var visibleRect = CGRect()

        visibleRect.origin = self.collectionView.contentOffset
        visibleRect.size = self.collectionView.bounds.size
        
        let visiblePoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(visibleRect), CGRectGetMidY(visibleRect))
        
        let visibleIndexPath: NSIndexPath = self.collectionView.indexPathForItemAtPoint(visiblePoint)
        
        guard let indexPath = visibleIndexPath else { return } 
        print(indexPath)

    }

For completeness sake, this is the method that ended up working for me. It was a combination of @Anthony & @iAn's methods.

- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
      CGRect visibleRect = (CGRect){.origin = self.collectionView.contentOffset, .size = self.collectionView.bounds.size};
      CGPoint visiblePoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(visibleRect), CGRectGetMidY(visibleRect));
      NSIndexPath *visibleIndexPath = [self.collectionView indexPathForItemAtPoint:visiblePoint];
      NSLog(@"%@",visibleIndexPath);
}

UICollectionView current visible cell index: Swift 3, 4 and 5+

var visibleCurrentCellIndexPath: IndexPath? {
    for cell in self.collectionView.visibleCells {
        let indexPath = self.collectionView.indexPath(for: cell)
        return indexPath
     }
        
     return nil
}

As an Extension:

extension UICollectionView {
  var visibleCurrentCellIndexPath: IndexPath? {
    for cell in self.visibleCells {
      let indexPath = self.indexPath(for: cell)
      return indexPath
    }
    
    return nil
  }
}

Usage:

if let indexPath = collectionView.visibleCurrentCellIndexPath { 
   /// do something
}

It will probably be best to use UICollectionViewDelegate methods: (Swift 3)

// Called before the cell is displayed    
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, willDisplay cell: UICollectionViewCell, forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    print(indexPath.row)
}

// Called when the cell is displayed
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didEndDisplaying cell: UICollectionViewCell, forItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    print(indexPath.row)
}

Just want to add for others : for some reason, I didnt not get the cell that was visible to the user when I was scrolling to previous cell in collectionView with pagingEnabled.

So I insert the code inside dispatch_async to give it some "air" and this works for me.

-(void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            UICollectionViewCell * visibleCell= [[self.collectionView visibleCells] objectAtIndex:0];
    
            
            [visibleCell doSomthing];
        });
}

Swift 3.0

Simplest solution which will give you indexPath for visible cells..

yourCollectionView.indexPathsForVisibleItems 

will return the array of indexpath.

Just take the first object from array like this.

yourCollectionView.indexPathsForVisibleItems.first

I guess it should work fine with Objective - C as well.

> For Swift 3.0

func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    let visibleRect = CGRect(origin: colView.contentOffset, size: colView.bounds.size)
    let visiblePoint = CGPoint(x: visibleRect.midX, y: visibleRect.midY)
    let indexPath = colView.indexPathForItem(at: visiblePoint)
}

converting @Anthony's answer to Swift 3.0 worked perfectly for me:

func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    
    var visibleRect = CGRect()
    visibleRect.origin = yourCollectionView.contentOffset
    visibleRect.size = yourCollectionView.bounds.size
    let visiblePoint = CGPoint(x: CGFloat(visibleRect.midX), y: CGFloat(visibleRect.midY))
    let visibleIndexPath: IndexPath? = yourCollectionView.indexPathForItem(at: visiblePoint)
    print("Visible cell's index is : \(visibleIndexPath?.row)!")
}

You can use scrollViewDidEndDecelerating: for this

//@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UICollectionView *collectionView;
  
   - (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
    
        for (UICollectionViewCell *cell in [self.collectionView visibleCells]) {
            NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.collectionView indexPathForCell:cell];
            NSUInteger lastIndex = [indexPath indexAtPosition:[indexPath length] - 1];
            NSLog(@"visible cell value %d",lastIndex);
        }
    
    }

In this thread, There are so many solutions that work fine if cell takes full screen but they use collection view bounds and midpoints of Visible rect However there is a simple solution to this problem

    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        let visibleCell = self.collImages.visibleCells.first
        print(self.collImages.indexPath(for: visibleCell))
    }

by this, you can get indexPath of the visible cell. I have added DispatchQueue because when you swipe faster and if for a brief moment the next cell is shown then without dispactchQueue you'll get indexPath of briefly shown cell not the cell that is being displayed on the screen.

This is old question but in my case...

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

    _m_offsetIdx = [m_cv indexPathForCell:m_cv.visibleCells.firstObject].row;
}

- (void) scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
    _m_offsetIdx = [m_cv indexPathForCell:m_cv.visibleCells.lastObject].row;
}

Also check this snippet

let isCellVisible = collectionView.visibleCells.map { collectionView.indexPath(for: $0) }.contains(inspectingIndexPath)

try this, it works. (in the example below i have 3 cells for example.)

    func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    let visibleRect = CGRect(origin: self.collectionView.contentOffset, size: self.collectionView.bounds.size)
    let visiblePoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(visibleRect), CGRectGetMidY(visibleRect))
    let visibleIndexPath = self.collectionView.indexPathForItemAtPoint(visiblePoint)
    if let v = visibleIndexPath {
        switch v.item {
        case 0: setImageDescription()
            break
        case 1: setImageConditions()
            break
        case 2: setImageResults()
            break
        default: break
        }
    }

Swift 3 & Swift 4:

func scrollViewDidEndDecelerating(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
   var visibleRect = CGRect()

   visibleRect.origin = collectionView.contentOffset
   visibleRect.size = collectionView.bounds.size

   let visiblePoint = CGPoint(x: visibleRect.midX, y: visibleRect.midY)

   guard let indexPath = collectionView.indexPathForItem(at: visiblePoint) else { return } 

   print(indexPath[1])
}

If you want to show actual number than you can add +1