Prologue

I have always been fascinated with the great Open Source community that all of us software developers enjoy. There have been some great frameworks which have come out of people’s passion for solving a problem or making a great thing even better. I have used so many open source frameworks throughout my career as a software developer and have always wanted to contribute back. However, I was not able to come up with a good problem to solve, until now. You already know from the heading — it’s a full fledged completely native iOS editor framework.

We use rich text…

Have you ever wished that you could achieve something like the following in a UITextView:

It is really odd that something that is used so widely, is not supported natively by UITextView on iOS. When I came across a scenario (more on that later — be sure to read till the end 🙂) where I needed to implement a functional list in UITextView, it seemed that I had hit a roadblock. Right at the onset, I knew that the only option I have is to use custom attributes in NSAttributeString. …

Recently, I came across a requirement of having multiple shadows on a single UIView. The requirement was pretty straightforward:

• Have a perimeter shadow with1px width.
• Have an ambient shadow which will be variable to give an impression of elevation, as in Material design.

The expected result was as follows:

I wanted to make this elevationgeneric such that it can be applied to any view. My experience on this piece of code turned out to be rather eventful unlike what I was expecting. …