HPGrowingTextView 1.1

Maintained by Unclaimed.

You want to add pod 'HPGrowingTextView', '~> 1.1' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'HPGrowingTextView', '~> 1.1'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try HPGrowingTextView

HPGrowingTextView 1.1

By
Hans Pinckaers

Multi-line/Autoresizing UITextView similar as in the SMS-app. The example project mimicks the look of Apple's SMS-app.

Properties

int maxNumberOfLines; // Stops growing at this amount of lines.
int minNumberOfLines; // Starts growing at this amount of lines.
int maxHeight; // Specify the maximum height in points instead of lines.
int minHeight; // Specify the minimum height in points instead of lines.
BOOL animateHeightChange; // Animate the growing
NSTimeInterval animationDuration; // Adjust the duration of the growth animation.

UITextView borrowed properties

NSString *text;
UIFont *font;
UIColor *textColor;
NSTextAlignment textAlignment;
NSRange selectedRange;
BOOL editable;
UIDataDetectorTypes dataDetectorTypes;
UIReturnKeyType returnKeyType;

If you want to set other UITextView properties, use .internalTextView

Delegate methods

-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldBeginEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;
-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldEndEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(void)growingTextViewDidBeginEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;
-(void)growingTextViewDidEndEditing:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

-(BOOL)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text;
-(void)growingTextViewDidChange:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

// Called WITHIN animation block!
-(void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView willChangeHeight:(float)height;

// Called after animation
-(void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView didChangeHeight:(float)height;

-(void)growingTextViewDidChangeSelection:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;
-(BOOL)growingTextViewShouldReturn:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView;

For more info, see blogpost: http://www.hanspinckaers.com/multi-line-uitextview-similar-to-sms