Adding a container view to UICollectionViewCell

Question

I am trying to add a container view to a UICollectionViewCell in interface builder but Xcode issues an error error: Illegal Configuration: Container Views cannot be placed in elements that are repeated at runtime. Will making the UICollectionViewCell static would solve this? If so, how would you make the UICollectionViewCell static?

Answer 1

What I guess you are trying to do, is placing a UIViewController into a dynamically generated UITableViewCell. If so, this isn't possible if the cell you are generating are dynamic. If you know a priori that the cells will always be in a fixed number, you can generate them by Interface builder setting the cells to static.

If instead you only want to add a container view to your cell in order to put other objects in it, you need to add a UIView object, not a UIViewController.