UICollectionView fails to honour zPosition and zIndex - iOS 11 only

Question

I try to find a workaround for this radar: http://www.openradar.me/34308893

Currently in my - (void)applyLayoutAttributes:(UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes *)layoutAttributes I'm doing the following:

dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, NSEC_PER_MSEC * 50), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
    self.layer.zPosition = 0;
});

But no matter how many NSEC_PER_MSEC I enter it doesn't work quite right, the scrolling indicator sometimes hides behind the headers, especially when ne headers appear. Is there another/better approach?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where a header view in a UICollectionView was getting rendered above another view that had it's zIndex set > 0 in a custom UICollectionViewFlowLayout.

The answer for me was to set the header view layer's zPosition in willDisplaySupplementaryView:

override public func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView,
                                    willDisplaySupplementaryView view: UICollectionReusableView,
                                    forElementKind elementKind: String,
                                    at indexPath: IndexPath) {
    if elementKind == UICollectionView.elementKindSectionHeader && type(of: view) == CollectionViewSectionHeaderView.self {
      view.layer.zPosition = -1
    }
  }

iOS11 doesn't seem to honor z-indexes in UICollectionViewFlowLayout subclasses.