Building A PDF Viewer With PDFKit in iOS 11

January 16, 2018 | Swift, PDFKit, iOS, macOS

PDFKit has been available to Mac developers since 10.4, but with iOS 11 Apple brought its support for viewing, editing, and authoring PDFs to iPhone and iPad. Previously, viewing PDF files meant rendering each page yourself with Core Graphics and Core Text, using an indirect solution like UIWebView or QuickLook, or . . .