How to set kerning in iPhone UILabel

Question

I am developing an iPhone app, and I want to set kerning in UILabel. The code I\'ve written (possibly around kCTKernAttributeName) seems to be in error. How mig

Answer 1

Taking DBD's answer, I made a category on UILabel which allows setting the kerning if running on iOS6+ with graceful fall back to just setting text on previous iOS versions. Might be of help to others...

UILabel+TextKerning.h

#import 

@interface UILabel (TextKerning)

/**
 * Set the label's text to the given string, using the given kerning value if able.
 * (i.e., if running on iOS 6.0+). The kerning value specifies the number of points
 * by which to adjust spacing between characters (positive values increase spacing,
 * negative values decrease spacing, a value of 0 is default)
 **/
- (void) setText:(NSString *)text withKerning:(CGFloat)kerning;

/**
 * Set the kerning value of the currently-set text.  The kerning value specifies the number of points
 * by which to adjust spacing between characters (positive values increase spacing,
 * negative values decrease spacing, a value of 0 is default)
 **/
- (void) setKerning:(CGFloat)kerning;

@end

UILabel+TextKerning.m

#import "UILabel+TextKerning.h"

@implementation UILabel (TextKerning)

-(void) setText:(NSString *)text withKerning:(CGFloat)kerning
{
    if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setAttributedText:)])
    {
        NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:text];
        [attributedString addAttribute:NSKernAttributeName
                                 value:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:kerning]
                                 range:NSMakeRange(0, [text length])];
        [self setAttributedText:attributedString];
    }
    else
        [self setText:text];
}

-(void) setKerning:(CGFloat)kerning
{
    [self setText:self.text withKerning:kerning];
}