Consider I have the following text in a UILabel (a long line of dynamic text):
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And for those that are migrating to iOS 8, here is a class extension for Swift:
extension UILabel {
func autoresize() {
if let textNSString: NSString = self.text {
let rect = textNSString.boundingRectWithSize(CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width, CGFloat.max),
options: NSStringDrawingOptions.UsesLineFragmentOrigin,
attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: self.font],
context: nil)
self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x, self.frame.origin.y, self.frame.size.width, rect.height)
}
}
}