Set text in uicollectionviewcell

UICollectionViewCell doesn’t have a default cell style. You have to create a custom UICollectionViewCell and add a UILabel inside.

UICollectionViewCell does not have default textLabel as UITableviewCell has, you have to create custom UICollectionViewCell as per your need.

You can look at this tutorial how to create custom collection view cell.

Swift 4.2

I came here because of the same issue but for Swift and I fixed it using this, I hope it helps:

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
    let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: cellId, for: indexPath)
    let title = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: cell.bounds.size.width, height: 50))
    title.text = "Some random text"
    title.font = UIFont(name: "AvenirNext-Bold", size: 15)
    title.textAlignment = .center
    cell.contentView.addSubview(title)
    return cell
}

Do not forget to register the cell:

collectionView.register(UICollectionViewCell.self, forCellWithReuseIdentifier: "cellId")