Structuring UIViewControllers with images inside of text - ios

Question

I have to create an application that has 5 UIViewControllers, each with big text and images inside the text. What I have done so far was to add a UITextView in the UIViewController and load with an rtf file the whole text (every text is big).
Now I have to add images inside the text in some places. What do you propose that could be the best way to construct it? I tried to add the image inside the the rtf file but it is not working properly. Since the text is too big I did not want to add the text manually by typing it. Also, I have a top bar menu that slides the view to each content, that is why I had to have only one UITextView. I am looking for a best solution.

Answer 1

What about adding your texts with images on UIWebView with loading these texts by wrapping them into html?
You can also add javascript callbacks which you will be able to handle in swift or obj-c by adding JavascriptCore.framework to your build phases:
Add button in your code:
<button text="Close" onclick="javascript:callSwiftCode()">Call swift code</button>
And in your UIWebViewDelegate class:
func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView: UIWebView) {
let context: JSContext = webView.valueForKeyPath("documentView.webView.mainFrame.javaScriptContext") as! JSContext
let codeClosure: #convention(block) ()->() = { ()->() in
print ("This is callback from javascript you can add your code in this closure")
}
let casted: AnyObject = unsafeBitCast(codeClosure, AnyObject.self) as AnyObject
context.setObject(casted, forKeyedSubscript: "callSwiftCode")
}

Answer 2

You can achieve this using NSAttributedString and NSTextAttachment. Attributed strings are strings with formatting attached(bold, italics, colors, etc), but you can also attach the images inside attributed strings, and they just get drawn right along with the text. Below example might help you understand:
//Create a mutable attributed string so that we could append everything to it.
let bigText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text starts here")
//Create a NSTextAttachment
let image1Attachment = NSTextAttachment()
image1Attachment.image = UIImage(named: "image1.png")
// wrap the attachment in its own attributed string so we can append it
let image1String = NSAttributedString(attachment: image1Attachment)
// add the NSTextAttachment wrapper to our full string, then add some more text.
bigText.appendAttributedString(image1String)
bigText.appendAttributedString(NSAttributedString(string: "End of text"))
// Then set this bigText to your label's attributedText property.
yourLabel.attributedText = bigText