NSAttributedString add text alignment

Question

How can I add text alignment attribute to an NSAttributedString to center the text?

Edit: Am I doing anything wrong? It doesn't seem to change the alignment.

CTParagraphStyleSetting setting;
setting.spec = kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment;
setting.valueSize = kCTCenterTextAlignment;

CTParagraphStyleSetting settings[1] = {
    {kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment, sizeof(CGFloat), &setting},           
};

CTParagraphStyleRef paragraph = CTParagraphStyleCreate(settings, sizeof(setting));

NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributed = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:self.attributedString];
[mutableAttributed addAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:(NSObject*)paragraph ,(NSString*) kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName, nil] range:_selectedRange];

Answer 1

As NSAttributedString is primarily used with Core Text on iOS, you have to use CTParagraphStyle instead of NSParagraphStyle. There is no mutable variant.

For example:

CTTextAlignment alignment = kCTCenterTextAlignment;

CTParagraphStyleSetting alignmentSetting;
alignmentSetting.spec = kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment;
alignmentSetting.valueSize = sizeof(CTTextAlignment);
alignmentSetting.value = &alignment;

CTParagraphStyleSetting settings[1] = {alignmentSetting};

size_t settingsCount = 1;
CTParagraphStyleRef paragraphRef = CTParagraphStyleCreate(settings, settingsCount);
NSDictionary *attributes = @{(__bridge id)kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName : (__bridge id)paragraphRef};
NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Hello World" attributes:attributes];