UITextView open link to crane

Question

I am using this code:

var textView = UITextView(x: 10, y: 10, width: CardWidth - 20, height: placeholderHeight) //This is my custom initializer textView.text = "dsfadsaf www.google.com" textView.selectable = true textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypes.Link textView.delegate = self addSubview(textView) 

The problem is that the call requires a long touch gesture. I want it to open with one click, as in the Facebook application.

Answer 1

The example below only works on iOS 8+

Click Recognizer:

 let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector("tappedTextView:")) myTextView.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer) myTextView.selectable = true 

Callback:

 func tappedTextView(tapGesture: UIGestureRecognizer) { let textView = tapGesture.view as! UITextView let tapLocation = tapGesture.locationInView(textView) let textPosition = textView.closestPositionToPoint(tapLocation) let attr: NSDictionary = textView.textStylingAtPosition(textPosition, inDirection: UITextStorageDirection.Forward) if let url: NSURL = attr[NSLinkAttributeName] as? NSURL { UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url) } } 

Swift 3 and no showdown:

 func tappedTextView(tapGesture: UIGestureRecognizer) { guard let textView = tapGesture.view as? UITextView else { return } guard let position = textView.closestPosition(to: tapGesture.location(in: textView)) else { return } if let url = textView.textStyling(at: position, in: .forward)?[NSLinkAttributeName] as? URL { UIApplication.shared.open(url) } }