The Backstory

This story starts with an UICollectionView that goes from Right to Left. I wrote another post about how to make that happen called Right to Left UICollectionView. When new cells were added to the chart, they grew into size. I was able to determine this by recording the screen and looking frame by frame at the UI.

The Cause

The views grew into size because the default UIView frame was .zero. This means that the view has a x,y of (0,0) and a 0 width and height. They then expands to fit the cell.

On the Apple Frame Docs I found that "If the transform property is not the identity transform, the value of this property is undefined and therefore should be ignored." Since our transform was a non-identity transform the frame was undetermined and thus used the .zero starting frame.

The Solution

To solve the problem, each of the cells' subviews were initialized with a frame of .null. This way it calculated the UIView's intended position before placing it in the view.