Large amount of text

[yassassin]

Hi,
I would like to develop an app that store and display a large amount of text.
Consider the following example.
My app displays in a table view, some titles of stories. If you click on each title, you can display the story. And each story is made of for matted text (bold, italic...).

Consider that I would like to embed the stories in local, inside the app, without downloading them from the web.

How do you implement this? Where do you store the text of each story?

Thank you in advance for your precious help,
yassa

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by yassassin

Hi,
I would like to develop an app that store and display a large amount of text.
Consider the following example.
My app displays in a table view, some titles of stories. If you click on each title, you can display the story. And each story is made of for matted text (bold, italic...).

Consider that I would like to embed the stories in local, inside the app, without downloading them from the web.

How do you implement this? Where do you store the text of each story?

Thank you in advance for your precious help,
yassa

For something as large as stories, you might want to store them as separate files in your bundle.

Formatted text could be a problem though. iOS doesn't have direct support for formatted text. The only "out of the box" solution is a UIWebView, and then you'd need to save the text as HTML.

iOS includes a low-level framework called Core Text that would let you draw formatted text, but you would have a lot of work to do to make that work.

[Domele]

You'd be better off storing the stories as PDFs as displaying formatted text is going to be more difficult.

From there, it's just a simple tableview that displays a list of titles. When the user clicks the title, open up a detail view which is just a PDF reader, something that has already been built be generous developers and open sourced.