Autoshrink on a UILabel with multiple lines

jfisk picture jfisk · Jan 30, 2012 · Viewed 37.9k times · Source

Is it possible to use the autoshrink property in conjunction on multiple lines on a UILabel? for example, the large text size possible on 2 available lines.

Answer

DaGaMs picture DaGaMs · Jul 27, 2012

I modified the above code somewhat to make it a category on UILabel:

Header file:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface UILabel (MultiLineAutoSize)
    - (void)adjustFontSizeToFit;
@end

And the implementation file:

@implementation UILabel (MultiLineAutoSize)

- (void)adjustFontSizeToFit
{
    UIFont *font = self.font;
    CGSize size = self.frame.size;

    for (CGFloat maxSize = self.font.pointSize; maxSize >= self.minimumFontSize; maxSize -= 1.f)
    {
        font = [font fontWithSize:maxSize];
        CGSize constraintSize = CGSizeMake(size.width, MAXFLOAT);
        CGSize labelSize = [self.text sizeWithFont:font constrainedToSize:constraintSize lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
        if(labelSize.height <= size.height)
        {
            self.font = font;
            [self setNeedsLayout];
            break;
        }
    }
    // set the font to the minimum size anyway
    self.font = font;
    [self setNeedsLayout];
}

@end