Setting uicollectionview cell size to 0 - uicollectionview

I have collectionview cells that are updated dynamically by long running jobs.
I want to be able to delete cells (representing jobs) from the view but preserve relationship between the long running job and the original index path which should display that jobs results.
I've tried using
self.collectionView performBatchUpdates:^{
[self.dataSource collectionview:self deleteItemsFromDataSourceAtIndexPaths:#[path]];
[self.collectionView deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:#[path]];
} completion:nil];
but i am having problems updating all the relationships to the new index paths that the jobs should relate to.
I have also tried assigning cells an identifier to a job and looking up the cell with the jobs identifer, but this approach doesn't work as the cell for the job can change when scrolling.
I think it would be easiest to set the size of the collectionview cell to 0 in the delegate method
- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
but was not able to set the size to zero
Any way around this.

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From the code you show, it looks as if you only set up your cell's content when a new one is created. Since there's no way of knowing which cell you'll be given from the cache, you need to configure the cell whether it's new or one that's being re-used.

UITableViewCell's disappear after insertion/deletion

I have a few UITableView's in my project, and sometimes I need to swap cells between them. Cells are complex enough and it's take a lot of time to re-create them each time I move them from one table to another, so I create its once, keep in array and pick up necessary cells  in cellForRowAtIndexPath Moving cells between tables looks something like this:
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I have a table view with cells that can be deleted. When a cell is deleted, I would like to display a deletion animation such as UITableViewRowAnimationFade. The problem is that my table view's cells have alternating background colors, so I need to -reloadData after the animation completes to fix the colors of all cells below the deleted cell.
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NSArray * indexPaths = [NSArray arrayWithObject:path];
[listTable deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:indexPaths withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
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You could also use NSTimer with the same delay (although unneeded, -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: works fine).
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