Image vertical alignment in subtitleCell configuration

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Created Jul ’20

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I am using the UIListContentConfiguration.subtitleCell() to display text, secondaryText and a SF Symbol as the image. The secondaryText is quite long in some cells so I would like to vertically align the symbol image to the top of the first line of text rather than the default where it is centered in the cell.

Is it possible to override the vertical alignment/position of the image in UIListContentConfiguration.subtitleCell()?

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Frameworks Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’20

Changing the vertical alignment of the image isn't currently a supported customization of UIListContentConfiguration. Please submit feedback if this is something you'd like to see supported.

To implement this using the current API, consider using a custom cell, and inside the cell's contentView, add your own UIImageView and a UIListContentView as subviews. Then, set the image to your own image view, and when you apply the content configuration to the UIListContentView, leave the image of the content configuration nil. This allows you to compose the standard list content view for the text (leveraging the built-in system implementation for that), with your own image view that you can configure exactly as desired. You can see an example of how to create a custom cell that uses UIListContentView like this in the Implementing Modern Collection Views sample code.

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