UILabel with basic rich text support

Question

My ipad application has a custom look. It uses text labels extensively for displaying partly colored/shadowed/bold texts. Larger pieces of text may contain numbered lists and embedded Images. There could be couple rich text regions on a single page.

I am not sure that UIWebView is the right tool for displaying strings like:

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MyApp title

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Hello rich text world

1. List item
2. List item

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Writing my own text rendering engine looks more sufficient to me than using UIWebView. Any ideas for lightweight rich text renderer ? c library or custom control ?

Answer 1

I would recommend using TTStyledLabel from the Three20 library. It provides the desired functionally and would save you the time of writing your own.