MYLinkInteraction

A drop-in replacement for UITextView link interaction actions

     

  

Description

UITextView has the ability to interact with various types of links in text. In addition to opening a responsible app for handling a custom URL, it provides a set of actions for standard link types including web URLs, phone numbers, addresses and dates.

Unfortunately, there is no way to customize it’s behavior other than disable it completely via -textView:shouldInteractWithURL:inRange:

And since all the trickery is done inside a private framework without any public API exposed to programmer, there’s no way to use these outside of UITextView as well.

MYLinkInteraction provides a full set of actions available in UITextView, but doesn’t tie itself to any particular UI. It can be used with UILabel, TTTAttributedLabel or even with UITextView itself.

Requirements

• iOS 8.0+
• ARC

Installation

From CocoaPods:

pod 'MYLinkInteraction'

Usage

Import all the things:

#import <MYLinkInteraction/MYLinkInteraction.h>

Assuming you already have a code which parses a link and gets NSTextCheckingResult. The usage is really simple then.

In case with TTTAttributedLabel:

- (void)attributedLabel:(TTTAttributedLabel *)label didSelectLinkWithTextCheckingResult:(NSTextCheckingResult *)result {
    MYLinkInteractionHandler *handler = [MYLinkInteractionHandler new];
    MYLinkData *linkData = [[MYLinkData alloc] initWithLinkText:label.text textCheckingResult:result];
    [handler handlePressWithLinkData:linkData popoverContext:nil];
}

- (void)attributedLabel:(TTTAttributedLabel *)label didLongPressLinkWithTextCheckingResult:(NSTextCheckingResult *)result atPoint:(CGPoint)point {
    MYLinkInteractionHandler *handler = [MYLinkInteractionHandler new];
    MYLinkData *linkData = [[MYLinkData alloc] initWithLinkText:label.text textCheckingResult:result];
    [handler handleLongPressWithLinkData:linkData popoverContext:nil];
}

See example app for details.

License

MYLinkInteraction is released under an MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.