# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/hanspinckaers/GrowingTextView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/growingtextview
Homepage: http://www.hanspinckaers.com/multi-line-uitextview-similar-to-sms
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-04-10T05:54:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5507, "days_push": 3067, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2037, forks 445 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:08.162153+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: mobile-development
- platform: -
- tags: uitextview, objective-c, chat-input, autoresizing, unmaintained, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- hanspinckaers/GrowingTextView (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.162153+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:16.506381+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hanspinckaers/GrowingTextView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.162153+00:00, sha c87761447994)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.