Attributed String / Text in SwiftUI

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Created Jul ’20

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Currently using Attributed String in Foundation we could have several text stylings in a long string by using something like this:

Code Block attributedSentence.setAttributes(redTextAttributes, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: 3))

How do we achieve this in SwiftUI?
Yes we can concat string like this

Code Block  Text("Hi there").foregroundColor(.red) + Text("how are you"?).foregroundColor(.blue)

But this static approach is not possible if we apply localisation in our app. Each language have different grammar which leads to different word structure.
How could we have a consistent "Hi there" in red color regardless of it's language?

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Calrizien OP

Jul ’20

bump. we need attributed strings in swiftui !

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Answer 2

damirstuhec OP

Oct ’20

The following should work:

Code Block Text("\(Text("Hi there").foregroundColor(.red)) how are you?").foregroundColor(.blue)

It will add the full text "Hi there how are you?" in the .strings file. It will also add "Hi there" as a separate entry, but I don't think there's a way around that, unfortunately.

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