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POhow to add static elements to UICollectionViewController or make them share the same screen with it
 

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    <p><strong>What I want to accomplish:</strong></p> <p>I'm designing a simple game's main screen. On the bottom half of the screen I want it to contain a collection view presenting a list of levels to choose from (long list, horizontally scrollable, nothing fancy - so it may be handled by a standard flow layout). On the top half of the screen I want to have a bunch of static, non-scrollable elements like an image or a label with game title, a static button leading to the credits page, a text field to enter user name etc.</p> <p><strong>The problem:</strong></p> <p>As the focus of this design seems to center around a collection view, I'm trying to use a UICollectionViewController in my storyboard to handle this. However, when I drag UICollectionViewController into my storyboard, it seems to always occupy full screen. I can't find a way to shrink it down nor to drag &amp; drop any button or labels onto it.</p> <p><strong>The question:</strong></p> <p>How can I accomplish such design as described above (collection view occupying only part of the screen, the other part being occupied by some static, non scrollable controls)?</p> <p>Should I:</p> <ol> <li>provide static buttons inside flow layout's header or footer section? (but then I'd have to make them "sticky", so they don't scroll with the rest of the content</li> <li>subclass flow layout and implement static buttons as layout's decoration views</li> <li>create custom container controller with two sections, one with UICollectionViewController, second with a plain view controller with a bunch of static buttons</li> <li>Do not use UICollectionViewController, but instead use a plain UIViewController and handle collection data source and delegate "manually" (it seems as a lot of unnecessary work)</li> <li>maybe I just miss some simple way to drag&amp;drop buttons over UICollectionViewController in XCode's IB (or to configure)</li> <li>any other way to do it?</li> </ol> <p>Please note that: 1. I'm complete iOS newbie, may miss some very obvious solution 2. Apart of sharing the same screen all of my components are very standard, I don't need any custom layouts or behaviours for my collection view or buttons - so I'd like to know whats the cleanest and simplest way to do this (some of potential solutions I proposed above seem like they may work, but for me sound like an overkill to implement such a simple screen)</p>
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