Handling Links in Text

• Handling Links in Text

Episode #478 | 10 minutes | published on February 11, 2021 | Uses Swift-5.3, Xcode-12.4

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Sometimes our text contains links that should be styled differently and react to taps so a URL can be opened in a web browser. While we can use a UILabel to detect and style links, they don't respond to touches. Let's see how we can leverage UITextView instead to handle links in NSAttribtedStrings.

This episode is part of a series: Layout in Code.

1. Setting up Scene Delegates in Code 7 min

2. SwiftUI Previews for UIKit min

3. Gradient View 11 min

4. Extracting View and Layout Code into a Custom View 7 min

5. Easier Autolayout Constraints with SnapKit 12 min

6. Styling Text with Attributed Strings 13 min

7. Handling Links in Text 10 min

8. Easier Styled Strings with BonMot 19 min