StretchyLayout | An example project for a post | Content Management System library

It looks like you are constraining the size of your collection view to fit within the bounds of the parent view containing the collection view's container view and the image view. As a result, the container scrollView has no contentSize to scroll over, and that's why you can't scroll. You need to ensure your collection view's content size is reflected in the parent scroll view's content size.

In the example you gave, this behavior was achieved by the length of the label requiring a height greater than the height between the image view and the rest of the view. In your case, the collection view container needs to behave as if it's larger than that area.

Edit: More precisely you need to pass the collectionView.contentSize up to your scrollView.contentSize. A scrollview's contentSize is settable, so you just need to increase the scrollView.contentSize by the collectionView.contentSize - collectionView.height (since your scrollView's current contentSize currently includes the collectionView's height). I'm not sure how you are adding your child view controller, but at the point you do that, I would increment your scrollView's contentSize accordingly. If your collectionView's size changes after that, though, you'll also need to ensure you delegate that change up to your scrollView. This could be accomplished by having a protocol such as: