How to make link, phone number clickable (Same behaviour as in textview) in a custom view where i draw text?

Question

I made a view and draw text on it and i want that if any text contains link(Hyperlink) or Phone Number It would be clickable (Same Behaviour As in Text View) So how to Achieve it ?

Code For View In which i am Drawing Text :-

class DrawRectCellView: UIView {

    var text: NSAttributedString?

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)

    }

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    // Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect)
    {
        UIColor.white.setFill()
        UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()?.fill(rect)

        // Drawing code

        if let attributedText = text {
            attributedText.draw(in: rect)
        }
    }

}

Code For TableCell :-

class DrawRectCell: UITableViewCell {

    var cellView: DrawRectCellView?

    override init(style: UITableViewCellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
        super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
        // Initialization code
        cellView = DrawRectCellView(frame: self.frame)

        if let cell = cellView {
            cell.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizing(rawValue: UIViewAutoresizing.RawValue(UInt8(UIViewAutoresizing.flexibleWidth.rawValue) | UInt8(UIViewAutoresizing.flexibleHeight.rawValue)))
            cell.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.redraw
        }

        self.contentView.addSubview(cellView!)
    }

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    func setTextString(_ text: NSAttributedString) {
        if let view = cellView {
            view.text = text
        }
    }

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        // Initialization code
    }

    override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)

        // Configure the view for the selected state
    }
}

i am Setting Text like = www.google.com or any phone number its showing as normal text only (Not Showing Like In textview (it makes it clickable))

Answer 1

First you need to detect your text contain url or numbers like this way.

let input = "This is a test with the URL https://www.hackingwithswift.com to be detected."
let detector = try! NSDataDetector(types: NSTextCheckingResult.CheckingType.link.rawValue)
let matches = detector.matches(in: input, options: [], range: NSRange(location: 0, length: input.utf16.count))

for match in matches {
    guard let range = Range(match.range, in: input) else { continue }
    let url = input[range]
    print(url)
}

if you detect url after setting to the textview you need to add UITapGestureRecognizer on UITextView like this way.

let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleTap")  

textview.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)

func handleTap(sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {

    if sender.state == .began {
      //write your code here for url tap 
    }
}