Is it possible to change color of single word in UITextView and UITextField

Question

Is it possible to change color of single word in UITextView and UITextField ?

If i have typed a word with a symbol infront (eg: @word) , can it's color be changed ?

Answer 1

Yes you need to use NSAttributedString for that, find the RunningAppHere.

Scan through the word and find the range of your word and change its color.

EDIT:

- (IBAction)colorWord:(id)sender {
    NSMutableAttributedString * string = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]initWithString:self.text.text];

    NSArray *words=[self.text.text componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];

    for (NSString *word in words) {        
        if ([word hasPrefix:@"@"]) {
            NSRange range=[self.text.text rangeOfString:word];
            [string addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor redColor] range:range];           
        }
    }
    [self.text setAttributedText:string];
}

EDIT 2 : see the screenshot

Answer 2

this is a swift implementation from @Anoop Vaidya answer,this function detect any word between {|myword|} , color these words in red and remove the special characters, hope this may help someone else:

 func getColoredText(text:String) -> NSMutableAttributedString{
    var string:NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
    var words:[NSString] = text.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")

    for (var word:NSString) in words {
        if (word.hasPrefix("{|") && word.hasSuffix("|}")) {
            var range:NSRange = (string.string as NSString).rangeOfString(word)
            string.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range: range)
            word = word.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("{|", withString: "")
            word = word.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("|}", withString: "")
            string.replaceCharactersInRange(range, withString: word)
        }
    }
    return string
}

you can use it like this:

self.msgText.attributedText = self.getColoredText("i {|love|} this!")

Answer 3

Modified @fareed's answer for swift 2.0 and this is working (tested in a playground):

func getColoredText(text: String) -> NSMutableAttributedString {
    let string:NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
    let words:[String] = text.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")
    var w = ""

    for word in words {
        if (word.hasPrefix("{|") && word.hasSuffix("|}")) {
            let range:NSRange = (string.string as NSString).rangeOfString(word)
            string.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range: range)
            w = word.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("{|", withString: "")
            w = w.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("|}", withString: "")
            string.replaceCharactersInRange(range, withString: w)
        }
    }
    return string
}

getColoredText("i {|love|} this!")