Assigning an array's count to collection view.

[Dershowitz011]

I'm declaring a global var items:[UIImage] = [] and I've a

func loadimages(url: String!) -> [UIImage]{

        let unsafe = url

        var data1 = [UIImage]()



        let bingo = NSURL(string: unsafe!)
        Alamofire.request(.GET, bingo!)
        .validate()
            .responseJSON{ response in
                switch response.result{
                case .Success:

                    let json33 = JSON(data: response.data!)

                    let allImageStrings = json33["response"]["docs"].flatMap { $0.1["imageData"].first?.1}


                    for Bro in allImageStrings{

                        let url = NSURL(string: Bro.string!)
                        let data = NSData(contentsOfURL: url!)!
                        let image = UIImage(data: data)


                        data1.append(image!)

                    }

                  self.items = data1



                    //print(self.items.count)

                case .Failure(let error):
                    print(error)
                }


    }


    return data1

    }

But when I run this,

override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

    print(self.items.count)
    return items.count

    }

Returns 0. How do I make it return the items.count properly? :(

[0ber]

When your data loaded call collectionView.reloadData()

[Dershowitz011]

How do I increase the gap between two cells? Because when I swipe up it goes up and automatically comes down before I swipe down! and every time I do that, the two cells start to merge but they won't! When I swipe right or left, the cells are clearly seen again! :(

[Juriv]

hey @Dershowitz011
If the issue is still actual, could you please take a video because we cannot reproduce it