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hanspinckaers/GrowingTextView

[UNMAINTAINED] An UITextView which grows/shrinks with the text and starts scrolling when the content reaches a certain number of lines. Similar to the one Apple uses in the SMS-app. See blog-post for a small screencast. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/hanspinckaers/GrowingTextView · homepage · Objective-C · MIT (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5507
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 3067
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2037 stars · 445 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An Objective-C iOS library providing a multi-line UITextView that grows and shrinks with typed text, scrolling once a set line limit is reached, mimicking Apple's SMS-app input. It exposes configurable min/max line or height properties, height-change animation, and delegate callbacks.

Use cases

  • auto-growing text input for an iOS chat app
  • UITextView that expands with text like the Messages app
  • multi-line input field with max line limit before scrolling
  • animated height-changing composer view in iOS
  • SMS-style message input box in Objective-C

When to choose

  • building a legacy Objective-C iOS app needing an SMS-like growing text view
  • you want a simple drop-in UITextView subclass with line limits and animation

When to avoid

  • starting a new Swift project - the repo is unmaintained and modern alternatives exist
  • you need SwiftUI or active support for recent iOS versions

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

ui-components animation mobile-development uitextview objective-c chat-input autoresizing unmaintained ios mobile swift

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Member repositories

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