Is UITextView enough for a simple writing app?

Question

Hi, I'm trying to make a simple writing program, like Notes app for iPad, with a custom keyboard. From OmniGroup's text editor open sources, I learned that UITextInput is mainly required to develop great text editor capable of having several fonts and size in one editor. But it seemed tough to implement a lot of methods in UITextInput Protocol in order to build a text editor from scratch.

Do you think UITextView is enough to make a simple writing program?

Do most writing apps in AppStore use their own framework using UITextInput?

Thank you!

Answer 1

UITextView is the ideal view to display and edit multiple lines of text. You can format the text using font, size and color. The only formatting restriction is that you can have only one text format for the whole view. The Notes app written by Apple is a typically use of UITextView.

Check Apple documentation for more...

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