UITextView’s Data Detectors are helpful in detecting the urls/phone numbers in the content we display in it.
However, links in UITextView don’t work on press, only when long pressing them works.
The work around for this is to add a Tap Gesture as shown below.
Swift
let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self,
action: #selector(self.tappedTextView))
sampleNotes.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer)
@objc func tappedTextView(tapGesture:
UIGestureRecognizer) {
let textView = tapGesture.view as! UITextView
let tapLocation = tapGesture.location(in: textView)
let textPosition = textView.closestPosition(to:
tapLocation)
let attr: NSDictionary = textView.textStyling(at:
textPosition!, in: .forward)! as NSDictionary
if let url: NSURL = attr[NSAttributedStringKey.link] as?
NSURL
{
tappedOn(url: url as URL)
}
}
func tappedOn(url: URL) {
print(url)
}
Objective C
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture =
[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:cell
action:@selector(tappedTextView:)];
[sampleNotes addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
- (void)tappedTextView:
(UITapGestureRecognizer*)tapGesture {
if (tapGesture.state != UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
return;
}
UITextView *textView = (UITextView *)tapGesture.view;
CGPoint tapLocation = [tapGesture
locationInView:textView];
UITextPosition *textPosition = [textView
closestPositionToPoint:tapLocation];
NSDictionary *attributes = [textView
textStylingAtPosition:textPosition
inDirection:UITextStorageDirectionForward];
NSURL *url = attributes[NSLinkAttributeName];
if (url) {
[self tappedOnLink:url];
}
}
Here, We are getting the tap location and checking whether the tapped area is of a link.
Hope this post is useful. Feel Free to comment incase of any queries.
