How to add text area in iOS app - iphone

Question

I am newbie for iPhone application. I want to add TextArea. I know how to add textField, however can someone help me how can I have Textare in my iPhone application?
I thought, I can increase the height of textfield and make it multi-line, however that option is not there.

Answer 1

You cannot increase the height of UITextField. for this you need to use UITextView.
In your Interface builder where you got UITextField, there is also an option of UITextView.
you can use UITextView same as UITextField in iPhone. UITextView is used for multiple lines
UITextView *txt = [[UITextView alloc]init];
//set frame
//add on view
[self.view addSubView:txt];
[txt release];
I hope this solves your problem Sample Code for TextView

Answer 2

UITextView *txt = [[UITextView alloc]initwithframe:CGRectMake(x, y, width,height)];
[self.view addSubView:txt];
[txt release];

Answer 3

You could simply do this by clicking on Mainstoryboard.storyboard or viewController.xib and dragging in a UITextView This will allow multi-line text. If you need to access the Textview, type:
.h file
{
IBOutlet UIITextView *textView;
}
#property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITextView* textView;
.m file
#synthesize textView;
EDIT
to get the users data, hook up the outlet in storyboards,
then use:
-(void)getUserText{
NSLog#"%#", self.textView);
}
This should print out whatever the user entered into the textView.