UICollectionView custom layout tutorial :: skeuo

For a recent project I needed to refactor a primary view within our iPad app, so I decided to learn the ins and outs of UICollectionView (introduced in iOS 6) and I thought it would make for a good tutorial to share. My project ended up needing a custom UICollectionViewLayout which meant I needed to handle more of the layout logic than if I'd used the UICollectionViewFlowLayout that Apple provides