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In this lesson, you’ve seen how Writing Tools can appear custom text views, even when those views do not rely on a familiar native text view.
Generally speaking, it’s labor-intensive to roll your own text view based on UITextInput rather than extending UITextView. If the thought intrigues you though, here are a couple resources to learn more:
- Adopting UITextInteraction, a blog post by PSPDFKit engineer Stefan Kieleithner.
- UITextInteractionExample, a helpful little sample code repo from Mark A. Vitale.
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Runestone: Simon Støvring’s terrific text editor for iOS that creates a custom text view based on
UITextInputand also is a handy developer tool to have on your phone and iPad.
Creating your own text views is a worthy exercise as you will gain a deeper of text rendering as well as provide a deeply configured experience to your end user.