Good practice to use guard/if-statements to style multiple CollectionvViewCells? - swift

Question

I have a dilemma where I have in my CollectionView each collectionviewcell is displaying different data and have different border/background styles to them. for example, a code snippet
let monsters: Monsters!
cell.graphViewIBO.isHidden = true
cell.monsblIBO.isHidden = true
cell.powersBgIBO.isHidden = true
guard indexPath.row != 0 else {
cell.indexOne(monsters)
return cell
}
guard indexPath.row != 1 else {
cell.indexTwo(monsters)
return cell
}
guard indexPath.row != 2 else {
cell.indexThree(monsters)
return cell
}
I feel like this may be bad practice and am uncertain whether I should continue doing it this way, or just use a scrollview and style each uiview in it independently.
Because as of right my storyboard contains several objects in one collectionviewcell that I need to hide/show depending on which index is being presented. Can I continue using a CollectionView for this? What method is the right method for this approach?

Answer 1

I think what you want to use is a switch statement. Your code would look as follows:
let monsters: Monsters!
cell.graphViewIBO.isHidden = true
cell.monsblIBO.isHidden = true
cell.powersBgIBO.isHidden = true
switch indexPath.row {
case 0:
cell.indexOne(monsters)
case 1:
cell.indexTwo(monsters)
case 2:
cell.indexThree(monsters)
default: break
}
return cell
If you are changing your cells a lot, you can create different subclasses of UICollectionViewCell, which you create depending on which index. If you are using each type of cell only once, a UIScrollView would be better. But if you are using the same type of cell more than once (and just change some text for example), you should use a UICollectionView.