Is there a way to create custom UIDataDetectorTypes?

Question

What I am trying to do is create tooltip functionality so that certain words in my instructional app can be tapped and the definition pops up. For the popup part I plan on

Answer 1

If you want custom data detector you could write an extractor method to primarly patch the links with help of NSregularExpression. For example

NSString regex = @"(http|https|fb)://((\w)|([0-9]*)|([-|_]))+(\.|/)"; to patch alll the links including Facebook URLs inside text like fb://friends.

Then you could use NSattributedString yo mark the links with different colors etc.

ThreeTwenty has a great library called TTTAttributedLabel where you could assign links to certain parts of a text. I also scrolls quite fast if you use it in tableviews

https://github.com/mattt/TTTAttributedLabel