UICollectionView vs UIPageViewController

Question

I need to have different full screen views in my app. Very similar to how snapchat works. The views should be able to communicate between each other.

My question is: Should I use a UICollectionView with cells same size as the screen or should I use UIPageViewController?

Please provide some background info to support your opinion!

Answer 1

I think both have pretty different purposes. UICollectionView is great to build a mosaic of views (think an image gallery for instance), whereas UIPageViewController is kind of similar to the flipping pages of a book. The latter seems to be what you need, but UIPVC doesn't seem to offer many tweaking/customizations, like custom transitions for example. In which case you may want to start from a UIScrollView with paging enabled to recreate something similar but with more potential. Here's an example.