SwiftyDequeuable

SwiftyDequeuable is a a more Elegant way to dequeue cells with a UITableView or a UICollectionView.

With Swift, we have the power of Protocol Oriented Programming + Protocol Extensions and with using Generics we can simplify these redundant processes.

We go from...

override func viewDidLoad() {
     super.viewDidLoad()

     let nibName = UINib(nibName: "SimpleLabelCell", bundle:nil)
     tableView.registerNib(nibName, forCellReuseIdentifier: "SimpleLabelCell")
 }

To something a little more Elegant...

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    tableView.registerNib(SimpleLabelCell.self)
}

No more strings!

Installation

Cocoapods

  pod 'SwiftyDequeuable'

Usage

Create a new cell with the corresponding .xib

import UIKit

class SimpleLabelCell: UITableViewCell {
    @IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!
}

In your viewDidLoad register your cell (or where ever you usually register your cells)

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    tableView.registerNib(SimpleLabelCell.self)
}

In your cellForRowAt of your UITableViewDatasource you can dequeue the cell by...

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
  // If we cannot dequeue cell, a fatal error would be thrown.
  let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(SimpleLabelCell.self, forIndexPath: indexPath)
  return cell
}

SwiftyDequeuable also supports UICollectionView, the steps are very to the ones above. Have a look at the Example.

License

SwiftyDequeuable is released under an MIT license. See License.md for more information.