Best way to display clickable links inside UILabel using Monotouch

Question

When developing using the Objective-C language I was able to use one of these solutions (Both not available for Monotouch):

• TTTAttributedLabel
• Fancy UILabels

When researching for some information I could find Miguel's implementation in the TweetStation application:

• TweetView

But at that time, he wrote a small parser for detecting links. As I didn't find any kind of special UILabel implementation for Monotouch, I would like to know from you:

What would be the best way I should follow to present clickable links inside a UITableViewCell's UILabel text using Monotouch?

Answer 1

I've open sourced my TTTAttributedLabel bindings for MonoTouch that you can use to get links in your labels.

• https://github.com/lipka/MonoTouch.TTTAttributedLabel

Example:

TTTAttributedLabel label = new TTTAttributedLabel ();
label.Text = new NSString ("I love Tink");
label.AddLinkToURL (new NSUrl ("http://tinkapp.com/"), new NSRange (7, 4));
label.Delegate = new LabelDelegate ();

...

class LabelDelegate : TTTAttributedLabelDelegate {
    public override void DidSelectLinkWithURL (TTTAttributedLabel label, NSUrl url)
    {
        Console.WriteLine ("Clicked URL: {0}", url.ToString ());
    }
}