Kerning in iOS UITextView

Question

For what apparently is a \'bug,\' UITextView does not seem to support kerning like other UIKit Elements. Is there a workaround to get kerning working?

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Answer 1

With iOS6, UITextView has a new attribute attributedText, to which you can assign an NSAttributedString. I have not tried it, but it would be interesting to see if you get the kerning you are after if you set this attribute of your text view rather than the text attribute. And it has the added benefit of being a public interface.