Question

Here is my code

 UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 50, 300, 50)];
    label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
    label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    label.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    label.textColor.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:30];
    label.text = @"A very long string";
     etc...

The problems is that the font is large and can’t fit in the label. It just display “A very”

What to do so entire text to be displayed.
I have tried

label.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
label.numberOfLines = 0;

But it doesn’t work for me.
I want to do that programmatically.

//EDIT

CGRect frame = CGRectMake(10, 50, 300, 50);
    NSString *labelString = @"Players.";

    UILabel *howManyUsersLabel = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:frame];
    howManyUsersLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
    howManyUsersLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    howManyUsersLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    howManyUsersLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
    howManyUsersLabel.numberOfLines = 0;

    CGFloat fontSize = 30;
    while (fontSize > 0.0)
    {
        CGSize size = [labelString sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:fontSize] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(frame.size.width, 10000) lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];

        if (size.height <= frame.size.height) break;
        fontSize -= 1.0;
        NSLog(@"test");
    }

    howManyUsersLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:fontSize];

Answer 1

I think you just need to add this:

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
label.minimumFontSize = 0;

Then the text will automatically resize to fit the label.

Note however that this will only really work if the label.numberOfLines = 1, so that the text is on a single line.

If you need the text to wrap onto multiple lines but still shrink to fit, the solution is more complex. To do this, you need to calculate the rendered size of the text and then reduce it in a loop, as follows:

NSString *theText = @"A long string";
CGRect labelRect = CGRectMake(10, 50, 300, 50);
label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
label.numberOfLines = 0;

CGFloat fontSize = 30;
while (fontSize > 0.0)
{
    CGSize size = [theText sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:fontSize] constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(labelRect.size.width, 10000) lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];

    if (size.height <= labelRect.size.height) break;

    fontSize -= 1.0;
}

//set font size
label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:fontSize];

This basically just reduces the font size until it fits the label.

UPDATE:

As of iOS7, multiline text will also shrink automatically when adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES, so the second part of this answer is no longer needed (unless you still support iOS 6 and earlier).