UICollectionView: One Row or Column

I am guessing you are using the built in Flow Layout. However, for your case, you should make a custom UICollectionView Layout. Make it subclass of UICollectionViewFlowLayout and add this code in the init method:

- (id)init {
    if ((self = [super init])) {
        self.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirectionHorizontal;
        self.minimumLineSpacing = 10000.0f;
    }
    return self; 
}

The minimumLineSpacing is the key to making it have one line here.

I hope this helps!

I found that setting the minimumLineSpacing just made my scroll area really big and that setting the minimumInteritemSpacing=big accomplished keeping the items in one scrolling row or column, centered in the middle of the collectionview.