LinkedIn.Hakawai .NET-iOS Binding Library

Hakawai

A subclass of UITextView providing extended functionality and support for 'plugins'. Hakawai ships with the Mentions plug-in, which provides a powerful and flexible way to easily add social-media-esque @mentions-style annotation support to your iOS app.

For a higher-level overview, check out our blog post at the LinkedIn engineering blog.

✨ Features

• A convenient drop-in replacement for UITextView instances
  • Includes Storyboards and XIBs
• Easily modify add, remove, and transform the text view's plain and attributed text using a set of powerful block-based APIs
• Work with attribute formatting and easily register or unregister custom attributes with enhanced attribute APIs
• Easily add, remove, and manage accessory views
  • These UI elements can be added/removed from the text view for additional functionality
• Lock the current line of text to the top or the bottom of the text view using single-line viewport mode
• Programmatically dismiss autocorrect suggestions, and temporarily override the autocorrect, autocorrection, and spell checking modes
• Solve several UITextView text layout bugs as Hakawai implements a custom layout manager and text container
• Extend functionality by registering or unregistering plugins
• EXPERIMENTAL - Easily monitor user changes to the text view's contents using the optional Abstraction Layer
  • Two-stage insertion for Chinese and Japanese keyboards is also properly handled
  • Abstraction Layer is built into the text view
  • Can also be pulled out and used independently if you desire

For complete information on the original library see https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai

For a simple setup to support mentions inside this UITextView see DefaultChooserViewController.cs in Sample project