Multiline UILabel with adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth

Question

I have a multiline UILabel whose font size I\'d like to adjust depending on the text length. The whole text should fit into the label\'s frame without truncating it.

Answer 1

There is an ObjC extension provided in comments, that calculate fontsize required to fit multiline text into UILabel. It was rewritten in Swift (since it is 2016):

//
//  NSString+KBAdditions.swift
//
//  Created by Alexander Mayatsky on 16/03/16.
//
//  Original code from http://stackoverflow.com/a/4383281/463892 & http://stackoverflow.com/a/18951386
//

import Foundation
import UIKit

protocol NSStringKBAdditions {
    func fontSizeWithFont(font: UIFont, constrainedToSize size: CGSize, minimumScaleFactor: CGFloat) -> CGFloat
}

extension NSString : NSStringKBAdditions {
    func fontSizeWithFont(font: UIFont, constrainedToSize size: CGSize, minimumScaleFactor: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
        var fontSize = font.pointSize
        let minimumFontSize = fontSize * minimumScaleFactor


        var attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: self as String, attributes:[NSFontAttributeName: font])
        var height = attributedText.boundingRectWithSize(CGSize(width: size.width, height: CGFloat.max), options:NSStringDrawingOptions.UsesLineFragmentOrigin, context:nil).size.height

        var newFont = font
        //Reduce font size while too large, break if no height (empty string)
        while (height > size.height && height != 0 && fontSize > minimumFontSize) {
            fontSize--;
            newFont = UIFont(name: font.fontName, size: fontSize)!

            attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: self as String, attributes:[NSFontAttributeName: newFont])
            height = attributedText.boundingRectWithSize(CGSize(width: size.width, height: CGFloat.max), options:NSStringDrawingOptions.UsesLineFragmentOrigin, context:nil).size.height
        }

        // Loop through words in string and resize to fit
        for word in self.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()) {
            var width = word.sizeWithAttributes([NSFontAttributeName:newFont]).width
            while (width > size.width && width != 0 && fontSize > minimumFontSize) {
                fontSize--
                newFont = UIFont(name: font.fontName, size: fontSize)!
                width = word.sizeWithAttributes([NSFontAttributeName:newFont]).width
            }
        }
        return fontSize;
    }
}

Link to full code: https://gist.github.com/amayatsky/e6125a2288cc2e4f1bbf