how to present long text in iOS?

Question

I am working on a small app, and I would like to bundle some short text descriptions, maybe with some images, in the help section. What control should I use to place these content? UILabel doesn't look too smart because it doesn't wrap text.

Answer 1

I used a UIWebView for this sort of thing.

I write out the help in HTML, including images if needs be, and then load it into a UIWebView. It is pretty flexible in terms of layout and fairly trivial to implement:

[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Instructions" 
                                                                                                         ofType:@"html"]
                                                             isDirectory:NO]]];         

Just add the file Instructions.html to your app and you're good to go.