Tint of the image does not want to change - swift

Question

I am trying to set a new color of the image while the cell of the UICollectionView was selected or deselected. Whenever i do not set a tint color of the image it is working, but i do not wanna have default blue color of it. So What I am doing is :
In func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell function, I am inicialazing my images with code :
let borderWidth = itemBorder.frame.width
let borderHeight = itemBorder.frame.height
myImage = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: borderWidth - 1/4 * borderWidth, height: borderHeight - 1/5 * borderHeight))
myImage.image = UIImage(named: myCollection[indexPath.row])?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
myImage.tintColor = UIColor.groupTableViewBackground
myImage.center = CGPoint(x: tmpCell.bounds.width/2, y: tmpCell.bounds.height/2)
myImage.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
tmpCell.contentView.addSubview(myImage)
and so on in the didselected and deselected function :
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let currentCell: UICollectionViewCell?
switch collectionView {
case myCollectionView:
print("clicked")
currentCell = myCollectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)!
currentCell?.tintColor = UIColor.white
case colorsCollectionView:
break
default:
break
}
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
let currentCell: UICollectionViewCell?
switch collectionView {
case vehiclesCollectionView:
print("deselected")
currentCell = myCollectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)!
currentCell?.tintColor = UIColor.groupTableViewBackground
case colorsCollectionView:
break
default:
break
}
}
Could someone tell me whats wrong ?
Thanks in advance!
Solution
Solution
Whenever i wanted to update the tint of the color i was pointing on the cell not on the image so basiclly only need to add this into selected or deselected method :
currentCell = myCollectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)!
let image = currentCell?.contentView.subviews[1] as! UIImageView
image.tintColor = UIColor.white

Answer 1

I see that you are setting the currentCell?.tintColor but I suppose you will probably have to set the currentCell?.vehicleImageView.image.tintColor
Also I see your code as a bit confusing since you have vehicleImage (which should probably be named vehicleImageView) and myImage which is a UIImage which is being added as a subView to the contentView? I thought it was only possible to add subclasses of UIView as subviews.
I suggest you create an outlet called myImageView in your custom UICollectionViewCell to which you can set the image.tintColor and change cell.myImageView.tintColor in your didSelect and didDeselect
If you do not add them from the storyboard, you can still create a subclass of UICollectionViewCell that has a property called vehicleImageView. You can set the frame and image of this as required in your cellForRow. Now you will have a property which you can refer to in your didSelect and didDeselect as cell.vehicleImageView.image.tintColor.
If you do not want to create a subclass that has a property, you will basically have to loop through all your subviews and find the image view and set the image tintColor there. Setting the tintColor of the UICollectionViewCell WILL NOT solve the problem. You will have to set it to the imageView.image
Hope that helps!