How to make an expression clickable on iOS?

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I am writing a Twitter type client. I want stuff like @ and # clickable. When I click on it, I want it to do some sort of IBAction. I found this for OSX:

http://flyosity.com/mac-os-x/clickable-tweet-links-hashtags-usernames-in-a-custom-nstextview.php

This is along the lines of what I want to accomplish. Anything for iOS that is of this caliber?

Have you looked at Three20? I believe that it supports clickable links. — Julian, Jun 14 '11 at 21:34

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 08:53

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The best dropin solution I've found was this: https://github.com/SebastienThiebaud/STTweetLabel Clean and simple.

answered Apr 26 '13 at 08:53

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 23 '13 at 12:43

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You can make any properly formatted URLs appear as blue underlined active links in a UITextView with the following code (in say viewDidLoad)

self.myTextView.editable = NO;
self.myTextView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;

Search for "Technical Q&A QA1495" in Xcode's Documentation and API Reference.

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answered Dec 21 '11 at 06:15

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+2 for your answer:)...it saved my time!! – Dalee Davis Jan 23 '13 at 12:35

uvesten · Answer 3 · 2011-06-15T07:34:23.640

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Just off the top of my head, I guess you could achieve it by using a UIWebView to display the content (which you have linkified, as per the "2: Finding The Interesting Parts" part of the blog post).

If you then prefix the hashtag links with a custom url scheme, like myappopenshashtags://, and register that url scheme for your app, you should be able to open your hashtags in whatever way you please.

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answered Jun 14 '11 at 21:44

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i want a full native solution. – Sheehan Alam Jun 16 '11 at 05:13
This is a "native" solution, thank you very much. If you can't see that, you don't know the word. – uvesten Jun 19 '11 at 19:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '11 at 22:36

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Look at this page http://furbo.org/2008/10/07/fancy-uilabels/

answered Jun 14 '11 at 22:36

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