Create tap-able “links” in the NSAttributedString of a UILabel?

Question

I have been searching this for hours but I\'ve failed. I probably don\'t even know what I should be looking for.

Many applications have text and in this text are web

Answer 1

I created UILabel subclass named ResponsiveLabel which is based on textkit API introduced in iOS 7. It uses the same approach suggested by NAlexN. It provides flexibility to specify a pattern to search in the text. One can specify styles to be applied to those patterns as well as action to be performed on tapping the patterns.

//Detects email in text

 NSString *emailRegexString = @"[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4}";
 NSError *error;
 NSRegularExpression *regex = [[NSRegularExpression alloc]initWithPattern:emailRegexString options:0 error:&error];
 PatternDescriptor *descriptor = [[PatternDescriptor alloc]initWithRegex:regex withSearchType:PatternSearchTypeAll withPatternAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor]}];
 [self.customLabel enablePatternDetection:descriptor];

If you want to make a string clickable, you can do this way. This code applies attributes to each occurrence of the string "text".

PatternTapResponder tapResponder = ^(NSString *string) {
    NSLog(@"tapped = %@",string);
};

[self.customLabel enableStringDetection:@"text" withAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor],
                                                                 RLTapResponderAttributeName: tapResponder}];