Format UILabel with bullet points?

Question

Perhaps use the Unicode code point for the bullet character in your string?

Objective-c

myLabel.text = @"\u2022 This is a list item!";

Swift 4

myLabel.text = "\u{2022} This is a list item!"

just add " • "

Even i was looking for something like this for my textView. What i did, just append above string with my string and pass it to my textView, same can be done for labels also.

I answered this for future Viewer.

Here is nice solution with Swift

let label = UILabel()
label.frame = CGRect(x: 40, y: 100, width: 280, height: 600)
label.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
label.numberOfLines = 0

let arrayString = [
    "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.",
    "Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.",
    "Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.",
    "Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
]

label.attributedText = add(stringList: arrayString, font: label.font, bullet: "")

self.view.addSubview(label)

Add bullet attributes

func add(stringList: [String],
         font: UIFont,
         bullet: String = "\u{2022}",
         indentation: CGFloat = 20,
         lineSpacing: CGFloat = 2,
         paragraphSpacing: CGFloat = 12,
         textColor: UIColor = .gray,
         bulletColor: UIColor = .red) -> NSAttributedString {

    let textAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey: Any] = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: font, NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: textColor]
    let bulletAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey: Any] = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: font, NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: bulletColor]

    let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
    let nonOptions = [NSTextTab.OptionKey: Any]()
    paragraphStyle.tabStops = [
        NSTextTab(textAlignment: .left, location: indentation, options: nonOptions)]
    paragraphStyle.defaultTabInterval = indentation
    //paragraphStyle.firstLineHeadIndent = 0
    //paragraphStyle.headIndent = 20
    //paragraphStyle.tailIndent = 1
    paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = lineSpacing
    paragraphStyle.paragraphSpacing = paragraphSpacing
    paragraphStyle.headIndent = indentation

    let bulletList = NSMutableAttributedString()
    for string in stringList {
        let formattedString = "\(bullet)\t\(string)\n"
        let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: formattedString)

        attributedString.addAttributes(
            [NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle : paragraphStyle],
            range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

        attributedString.addAttributes(
            textAttributes,
            range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

        let string:NSString = NSString(string: formattedString)
        let rangeForBullet:NSRange = string.range(of: bullet)
        attributedString.addAttributes(bulletAttributes, range: rangeForBullet)
        bulletList.append(attributedString)
    }

    return bulletList
}

Here is result:

In Swift 4 i have used " • " with new Line

 @IBOutlet weak var bulletLabel: UILabel!
 let arrayOfLines = ["Eat egg for protein","You should Eat Ghee","Wheat is with high fiber","Avoid to eat Fish "]
 for value in arrayOfLines {
     bulletLabel.text = bulletLabel.text!  + " • " + value + "\n"
  }

Output:

In swift 3.1

lblItemName.text = "\u{2022} This is a list item!"

Check out this link, I made a Custom view to format text with bullet points/ other symbols/ image(using attributeText property of UILabel) as list item symbol (Swift 3.0) https://github.com/akshaykumarboth/SymbolTextLabel-iOS-Swift

 import UIKit

    class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet var symbolView: SymbolTextLabel!

    var testString = "Understanding the concept of sales"

    var bulletSymbol = "\u{2022}" 
    var fontsize: CGFloat= 18
    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()
         //First way // Dynamically creating SymbolTextLabel object

        let symbolTextLabel = SymbolTextLabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 0, height: 0))

        symbolTextLabel.setText(text: testString, symbolCode: bulletSymbol) //setting text and symbol of text item

        symbolTextLabel.setFontSize(textSize: fontsize) // setting font size

        //symbolTextLabel.setSpacing(spacing: 5) // setting space between symbol and text

        self.view.addSubview(symbolTextLabel) 
//second way // from storyboard or interface builder

     symbolView.setText(text: testString, symbolCode: bulletSymbol)
 //setting text and symbol of text item 

    symbolView.setFontSize(textSize: fontsize) // setting font size

        //symbolView.setSpacing(spacing: 5) // setting space between symbol and text

         } 
    }