ios - UICollectionView - didDeselectItemAtIndexPath not called if cell is selected

Question

The first thing I do is to set the cell selected.

- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    UICollectionViewCell *cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.selected = YES;
    return cell;
}

And the cell is successfully selected. If the user touches the selected cell, than should the cell be deselected and the delegates be called. But this never happen.

- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
}

- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didDeselectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
}

I know that the delegates are not called if I set the selection programmatically. The delegate and datasource are set.

However, this delegate gets called:

- (BOOL)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView shouldHighlightItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
    return YES;
}

If I remove the cell.selected = YES than everything is working. Is there any one who can me explain this behaviour?

Answer 1

The issue is, that the cell is selected, but the UICollectionView does not know anything about it. An extra call for the UICollectionView solves the problem:

[collectionView selectItemAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UICollectionViewScrollPositionNone]; 

Full code:

- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    UICollectionViewCell *cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.selected = YES;
    [collectionView selectItemAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UICollectionViewScrollPositionNone];
    return cell;
}

I keep the question to help someone who may face the same problem.