iOS 15 Brings Attributed Strings to SwiftUI

Markdown, colors, and formatting — it’s never been easier

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Attributed Strings have always been hard to work with. The most basic implementation, in UIKit, would be something like this:

This is bad enough, but it’s even worse for SwiftUI. The current accepted answer on Stack Overflow uses UIViewRepresentable and some other unnecessarily complex code. However, that was the only way — until WWDC21.

Markdown

Markdown is everywhere: on GitHub, Stack Overflow, Discord’s message bubble… and now, the awesome formatting language comes to SwiftUI! Everything works, even links: