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Render and customize rich attributed text in SwiftUI

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Render and customize rich attributed text in SwiftUI

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CharlesW·May 17, 2026

I'm suggesting that instead of going with the heaviest-possible option, they first explore built-in capabilities like TextEditor (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/texteditor) and/or the many open source projects which offer Markdown support (https://github.com/gonzalezreal/textual).

In Native all the way, until you need text

lenkite·May 17, 2026

> But I still cannot make a simple thing work properly: a chat with Markdown & the ability to select a whole message. Sorry, sounds like bullsh_t. One can leverage mature markdown renderers in SwiftUI. See https://github.com/gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui and its next gen replacement https://github.com/gonzalezreal/textual . Used these myself and had no issues. And I am a moron who doesn't like Swift or SwiftUI - preferred Objective-C, but still managed to do this, without any LLM help.

In Native all the way, until you need text