How to paste image from pasteboard on UITextView?

Question

I have the following code on a keyboard extensión

let pasteboard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
var image = UIImage(named: \"myimage\");
pasteboard.image         


        

Answer 1

UITextView only supports pasting text out of the box. You can subclass it and add support for pasting images, which can be implemented using attributed string text attachments.

NSHipster's writeup on UIMenuController and this Stack Overflow question explain the paste logic.