How to apply both bold and italic font to an NSAttributedString?

Question

I\'m trying to parse my own HTML string into an NSAttributedString for rendering in a UITextView.

So, for when the string appears as such:

Answer 1

Here is my answer after looking through different sources:

UIFontDescriptor *fontDescriptor = [UIFontDescriptor preferredFontDescriptorWithTextStyle:UIFontTextStyleBody];

UIFontDescriptor *changedFontDescriptor;      
NSDictionary *attributes;

uint32_t existingTraitsWithNewTrait = [fontDescriptor symbolicTraits] | UIFontDescriptorTraitBold | UIFontDescriptorTraitItalic;
changedFontDescriptor = [fontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits:existingTraitsWithNewTrait];

UIFont *updatedFont = [UIFont fontWithDescriptor:changedFontDescriptor size:0.0];

attributes = @{ NSFontAttributeName : updatedFont };

attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:yourString attributes:attributes];