how to retrieve link from text view?

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how to retrieve a link from text view. When user click an link , i need to capture that link. Any way to do that ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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~~Just implement -application:handleOpenURL: in your app delegate. Return NO to avoid opening the URL.~~

Just subclass UIApplication and override its -openURL: method, e.g.

-(BOOL)openURL:(NSURL*)theURL {
   if (shouldOpenURL(theURL))
     return [super openURL:theURL];
   else
     return NO;
}

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answered Jun 07 '10 at 12:09

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Wrong answer. The application:handleOpenURL is called, when external party tries to open some URL using your application. This question was about catching url opening within same application --> use UIWebView. – JOM Aug 27 '10 at 07:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '10 at 12:07

You cannot detect clicks in regular UITextView. If you want that functionality, use UIWebView instead, and implement UIWebViewDelegate, so you can intercept clicks by implementing this method

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

how to retrieve link from text view?

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