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