How to put a view on the back of a UICollectionViewCell - ios6

In my app there are some UICollectionViewCells displaying some info.
When the user taps a button on one of them, I flip the tapped cells with this piece of code:
UICollectionViewCell* cell = [collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0
delay:0
options:(UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction)
animations:^
{
NSLog(#"starting animation");
[UIView transitionFromView:cell.contentView
toView:cell.contentView
duration:.5
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
completion:nil];
}
completion:^(BOOL finished)
{
NSLog(#"animation end");
}
];
After the cell flips (which is does correctly) the cell is completly white.
Two questions about is:
- why is the cell white after the flip. Shouldn't it display the original info since the fromView is equal to the toView?
- what is the best way to display different content on the back of the cell. I suppose UICollectionViewCell doesn't have something link cell.contentViewBack...

you may have this by now but,
Not sure if this is the 'Best' way to do it, I got this to work by creating a custom UICollectionViewCell, having 2 UIImageViews in the custom cell, and targeting those views in the animation (this only works for you if thats all you want to have in your cells - may help, may not, anywho)
Create new UICollectionViewCell class (mine is called CardCVCell)
In the CardCVCell.h put in you UIImageView outlets
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *cardImage;
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIImageView *cardBackImage;
I used storyboard - in there I typed in 'CardCVCell' as my custom class on the cell in the Collection View in my scene.
In my View Controller for that scene I have the code you have above, but I use the UIImageViews in the custom cell for the views in the transition (note you have to cast the UICollectionViewCell to your custom class
- (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
// animate the cell user tapped on
CardCVCell *cell = (CardCVCell *)[collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath];
[UIView transitionFromView:cell.cardBackImage
toView:cell.cardImage
duration:.5
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
completion:^(BOOL finished)
{
if (finished) {
NSLog(#"animation end");
}
}
];
}
I hope this helps someone if not you, if I can help let me know.
cheers

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