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Core Text to render HTML content


I was wondering if is there a way to render html content using core text, because the common UIWebView is slow as hell to load up.

I've got very basic needs:
- reading p tags
- reading span tags
- using colors
- using fonts and sizes

that's all.

thanks you so much!
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Solution

  • ok I solved this in a bit tricky way.
    I implemented a HTMLParser to extract the characters that I needed to be formatted in a different way. than I proceeded to use the string in Core-Text.

    my references were

    [HTMLParser] https://github.com/zootreeves/Objective-C-HMTL-Parser
    remember that this one has a problem by parsing two tags one after another
    (e.g. < p >< span >. . . < /span >< /p >)

    [kickstart for CoreText] https://github.com/jonasschnelli/I7CoreTextExample