Is CoreText the way to go for displaying formatted text?

Question

I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to display quite a bit of formatted text is using CoreText, although I've never used it, and it looks to be quite code-intensive for achieving results a basic word processor or HTML file would achieve easily!

Is this the way to go? I've already ruled out UIWebView due to Apple having issues with it, but can't seem to find any other viable alternatives to what seems to me to be quite a basic problem.

I'd love for someone on here to reassure me that all these apps in the App Store use CoreText to display all their formatted text and that I'm not being a complete idiot and missing something very obvious!

Answer 1

It really depends on much control you need on text displaying . For something simple you can take a look at NSAttributedString class. See also Attributed String Programming Guide