Swift: Click onto cell of UICollectionView and open AlertViewController

Question

In my app, I am using an UICollectionView. Now I want to develop an UIAlertController, when clicking onto any cell of the collection view. I started with following code:

extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource {

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    …
}

// specify cells
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
    ….
}

// called when widget is moved
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, moveItemAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) {
        …
}

// called when clicked
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    print("Got clicked!")
}

}

But somehow, "Got clicked!" is never printed.

Answer 1

try next:

extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate {

}

or

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
   ...
   cell.addGestureRecognizer(UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(tap(_:))))
}

func tap(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {

   let location = sender.location(in: self.collectionView)
   let indexPath = self.collectionView.indexPathForItem(at: location)

   if let index = indexPath {      
      print("Got clicked on index: \(index)!")
   }         
}

Answer 2

This is the version using the delegate:

extension HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDelegate {
  func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    print("item at \(indexPath.section)/\(indexPath.item) tapped")
  }
}

Instead of using the extension you can also just add UICollectionViewDelegate and the collectionView(...didSelectItemAt:...) function to the class HomeViewController directly:

class HomeViewController: UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate {
  func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    print("item at \(indexPath.section)/\(indexPath.item) tapped")
  }
}