An easy way to add mentions to uitextview like Facebook and Instagram. It also include a tableview to show the users list to choose from. The component is written in Swift.
- Expandale UITextView (also expandle UITextView container)
- Show and manage position of users list when "@" is typed ("@" can be changed to any character)
- Customizable mention text
pod 'OEMentions'You can import OEMentions.swift file manually to your project folder
You can see a full implementation in ViewController.swift
- Refrence UITextView outlet and "Optional: Container (UIView that has UITextView in it)"
@IBOutlet weak var containerView: UIView!
@IBOutlet weak var textView: UITextView!- Create a OEMention variable
var oeMentions:OEMentions!- Create an OEObejct array that contain users info (id, name)
let oeObjects = [OEObject(id: 1,name: "Elsie Easterling"), OEObject(id: 2,name: "Caterina Misiewicz"), OEObject(id: 3,name: "Ruben Dematteo")]- Initialize the OEMentions
oeMentions = OEMentions(containerView: containerView, textView: textView, mainView: self.view, oeObjects: oeObjects)- Assign UITextView delegate to OEMentions
textView.delegate = oeMentions- (Optional) OEMentionsDelegate: delegate method for the chosen user
class ViewController: UIViewController, OEMentionsDelegateoeMentions.delegate = selffunc mentionSelected(id:Int, name: String) {
// Do something with selected id and name
}changeMentionCharacter(character: String)changeMentionTableviewBackground(color: UIColor)// Color of the mention tableview name text
OEMentions.nameColor
// Font of the mention tableview name text
OEMentions.nameFont
// Rest of the UITextView text color
OEMentions.notMentionColorMIT License
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