Text & link editor

Text editor mimicking Apple's Notes with some additional features

• Tap to start editing
• Auto-detect links even while typing
• Open links in-app (local browser)
• Add/remove links from text

Details

UITextView does not support tap to edit. Moreover it doesn't detect/open links while editing. To fix this we:

• Recognize tap gesture on UITextView
• Calculate the nearest cursor position
• Use NSLayoutManager and NSTextStorage apis to detect whether the tap location contains a link and open it
• Differentiate between auto-detected links and user created links using tags

Preview

Note

This code is based on the MVC architecture and UIKit. It is missing some basic features like persistence, etc.