Autoshrink on a UILabel with multiple lines

Question

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 1

itedcedor's answer has an issue that pwightman pointed out. Also, there is no need to trim whitespaces. Here it is the modified version:

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

    for (CGFloat maxSize = self.font.pointSize; maxSize >= self.minimumScaleFactor * self.font.pointSize; maxSize -= 1.f) {
        font = [font fontWithSize:maxSize];
        CGSize constraintSize = CGSizeMake(size.width, MAXFLOAT);
        CGSize labelSize = [self.text sizeWithFont:font constrainedToSize:constraintSize lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];

        if(labelSize.height <= size.height) {
            self.font = font;
            [self setNeedsLayout];
            break;
        }
    }

    // set the font to the minimum size anyway
    self.font = font;
    [self setNeedsLayout];
}

Answer 2

I used @wbarksdale's Swift 3 solution but found that long words were being truncated in the middle. To keep words intact, I had to modify as shown:

extension UILabel {
    func adjustFontSizeToFit(minimumFontSize: CGFloat, maximumFontSize: CGFloat? = nil) {
        let maxFontSize = maximumFontSize ?? font.pointSize
        let words = self.text?.components(separatedBy: " ")
        var longestWord: String?
        if let max = words?.max(by: {$1.characters.count > $0.characters.count}) {
            longestWord = max
        }
        for size in stride(from: maxFontSize, to: minimumFontSize, by: -CGFloat(0.1)) {
            let proposedFont = font.withSize(size)
            let constraintSize = CGSize(width: bounds.size.width, height: CGFloat(MAXFLOAT))
            let labelSize = ((text ?? "") as NSString).boundingRect(with: constraintSize,
                                                                    options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin,
                                                                    attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: proposedFont],
                                                                    context: nil)

            let wordConstraintSize = CGSize(width: CGFloat(MAXFLOAT), height: CGFloat(MAXFLOAT))
            let longestWordSize = ((longestWord ?? "") as NSString).boundingRect(with: wordConstraintSize,
                                                                    options: .usesFontLeading,
                                                                    attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: proposedFont],
                                                                    context: nil)

            if labelSize.height <= bounds.size.height && longestWordSize.width < constraintSize.width {
                font = proposedFont
                setNeedsLayout()
                break
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

There is a method on NSString, -sizeWithFont:minFontSize:actualFontSize:forWidth:lineBreakMode: which has apparently existed since iOS 2.0, but unfortunately is deprecated in iOS 7 without a suggested alternative as the automatic reduction of font size is discouraged. I don't really understand Apple's stance on this as they use it in keynote etc and I think if the font sizes are within a small range it is ok. Here's an implementation in Swift using this method.

var newFontSize: CGFloat = 30
    let font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(newFontSize)
    (self.label.text as NSString).sizeWithFont(font, minFontSize: 20, actualFontSize: &newFontSize, forWidth: self.label.frame.size.width, lineBreakMode: NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping)
    self.label.font = font.fontWithSize(newFontSize)

I'm not aware of a way this can be achieved without using deprecated methods.

Answer 4

extension UILabel{

func adjustFont(minSize:Int, maxSize:Int){
    var newFont = self.font
    for index in stride(from: maxSize, to: minSize, by: -1) {
        newFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: CGFloat(index))
        let size = CGSize(width: self.frame.width, height: CGFloat(Int.max))
        let size2 = (self.text! as NSString).boundingRect(with: size, options: [.usesLineFragmentOrigin, .usesFontLeading], attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font:newFont!], context: nil).size
        if size2.height < self.frame.size.height{
            break
        }
    }
    self.font = newFont
}

}

you need to assign value to the numberOfLines property of UILabel as well.

Answer 5

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