How to adjust font size of label to fit the rectangle?

Question

Yeah, there\'s this cool myLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES; property. But as soon as the label has two lines or more, it won\'t resize the text to anythin

Answer 1

If someone is looking for a MonoTouch/Xamarin.iOS implementation, as I did ... here you go:

private int BinarySearchForFontSizeForText(NSString text, int minFontSize, int maxFontSize, SizeF size)
{
    if (maxFontSize < minFontSize) 
        return minFontSize;

    int fontSize = (minFontSize + maxFontSize) / 2;
    UIFont font = UIFont.BoldSystemFontOfSize(fontSize);

    var constraintSize = new SizeF(size.Width, float.MaxValue);
    SizeF labelSize = text.StringSize(font, constraintSize, UILineBreakMode.WordWrap);

    if (labelSize.Height >= size.Height + 10 && labelSize.Width >= size.Width + 10 && labelSize.Height <= size.Height && labelSize.Width <= size.Width)
        return fontSize;
    else if (labelSize.Height > size.Height || labelSize.Width > size.Width) 
        return BinarySearchForFontSizeForText(text, minFontSize, fontSize - 1, size);
    else 
        return BinarySearchForFontSizeForText(text, fontSize + 1, maxFontSize, size);
}

private void SizeLabelToRect(UILabel label, RectangleF labelRect)
{
    label.Frame = labelRect;

    int maxFontSize = 300;
    int minFontSize = 5;
    int size = BinarySearchForFontSizeForText(new NSString(label.Text), minFontSize, maxFontSize, label.Frame.Size);

    label.Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(size);
}

It's a translation of agarcian's code from Objective-C to C#, with a small modification: as the returning result has always been 0 (see the comment of borked) I am returning the calculated minFontSize, which results in a correct font size.