CCHLinkTextView

CCHLinkTextView makes it easy to embed links with custom styles inside a UITextView and receive events for short and long taps. It looks and behaves similar to table cells used in popular Twitter apps such as Twitterrific or Tweetbot.

Alternatives

When using iOS 7's built-in link detection via NSLinkAttributeName, you will find that textView:shouldInteractWithURL:inRange: is only called when the user presses the link for a certain amount of time. This delay is frustrating for users because they expect an app to react instantly on taps. In contrast to UITextView, CCHLinkTextView works great in UITableViews, even with userInteractionEnabled set to YES, because you can receive touches not handled by links to select a table cell. In addition, it provides handlers for short and long taps and can use different text styles for each link.

Compared to OHAttributedLabel and TTTAttributeLabel, CCHLinkTextView is written for iOS 7 using TextKit functionality. This makes for a more efficient implementation avoiding custom drawing code using CoreText.

In contrast to STTweetLabel, CCHLinkTextView is a subclass of UITextView because UILabel has limited TextKit support and adding this functionality can be quite hacky. CCHLinkTextView supports all of UITextView's features and can also be used from within storyboards. Whereas STTweetLabel places its links on certain hotwords, you can mark any text range as a link with CCHLinkTextView.

Installation

Usage

• By default, CCHLinkTextView is noneditable. Setting isEditable to YES will turn off link detection.
• Links can have custom styles
• UIAppearance support
• NSTextChecking/data detectors

License (MIT)