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Currently, I have an RSS Feed Reader in a UITableView within a Navigation Control. I would like to click on the links and Open up a formatted page (containing all of the information from the website formatted for the iOS screen). I'm not sure if I should do this using the RSS data and a UITextView? I'm currently attempting to use UITextView in hopes that I can separate the information (title, author, body) without anything looking promising. I want to be able to move around the data and format it to my liking in the actual application itself. I read around and noted that you can include HTML and custom CSS. Would this be the way to go? I'm not quite sure how to tackle this. I want the page that opens up to be entirely scrollable (Like the IGN application or Slashgear application). Many apps for websites utilize this (and I am a bit new to this). How do they go about this? I also want to note, at some point I will like to cache the data so it may load what is already loaded without being connected to the internet. Does anyone have any ideas?

Edit: Ok, I believe I found the correct path to go down from playing around and a lot of googling (nothing directly says what a decent way of doing this is). My particular way as of now is the route of a UIScrollView in general. Now the part I don't understand is how to divide up the long text into 'pages' for scrolling (and I am using the paging feature. This situation has led me into this question: How To Separate Strings For UIScrollView/UITextView based on the size of the frame

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  • have you used textView for displaying information?? – NiravPatel Nov 22 '12 at 12:48
  • If you read the linked thread, I ended up using a scroll view with a uitextview in it. I'm still debating on whether I should have used a uiwebview instead though. – TheCodingArt Nov 23 '12 at 18:17
  • yeah man ,,just use webview. i also had similar problem. try to use it like below. [rssWeb loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"
    %@
    ",getwebString] baseURL:nil];     – NiravPatel Nov 24 '12 at 04:39
  • I didn't realize you could toss in everything like that for formatting. That's where my confusion was with the webview side. First I wanted to know if I could toss in my own CSS sheet.. (which I kinda got an answer to but not really).. and then creating a string to pass to the webview with the content seemed too simple... – TheCodingArt Nov 25 '12 at 20:17

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Ok, I believe I found the correct path to go down from playing around and a lot of googling (nothing directly says what a decent way of doing this is). My particular way as of now is the route of a UIScrollView in general. Now the part I don't understand is how to divide up the long text into 'pages' for scrolling (and I am using the paging feature. This situation has led me into this question: How To Separate Strings For UIScrollView/UITextView based on the size of the frame

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