Conclusion

In this lesson, you’ve seen how Writing Tools can appear custom text views, even when those views do not rely on a familiar native text view.

Generally speaking, it’s labor-intensive to roll your own text view based on UITextInput rather than extending UITextView. If the thought intrigues you though, here are a couple resources to learn more:

• Adopting UITextInteraction, a blog post by PSPDFKit engineer Stefan Kieleithner.
• UITextInteractionExample, a helpful little sample code repo from Mark A. Vitale.
• Runestone: Simon Støvring’s terrific text editor for iOS that creates a custom text view based on UITextInput and also is a handy developer tool to have on your phone and iPad.

Creating your own text views is a worthy exercise as you will gain a deeper of text rendering as well as provide a deeply configured experience to your end user.