Apple News Format: Using Markdown

article.json

{
    "version": "1.1",
    "identifier": "sketchyTech_Demo",
    "title": "My First Article",
    "language": "en",
    "layout": {},
    "components": [
        {
            "role": "title",
            "text": "My First Article",
            "textStyle": "titleStyle"
        },
        {
            "role": "body",
            "format": "markdown",
            "text": "This is just _over_ the minimum amount of JSON required to create a valid article in **Apple News Format**. If you were to delete the dictionary enclosing this text, you'd be there.",
            "textStyle": "bodyStyle"
        }
    ],
    "componentTextStyles": {
        "titleStyle": {
            "textAlignment": "center",
            "fontName": "HelveticaNeue-Bold",
            "fontSize": 64,
            "lineHeight": 74,
            "textColor": "#000"
        },
        "bodyStyle": {
            "textAlignment": "left",
            "fontName": "Georgia",
            "fontSize": 18,
            "lineHeight": 26,
            "textColor": "#000"
        }
    }
}

Once you have the basic structure in place for your Apple News Format article, and the component text styles for your paragraph style formatting, you can then use either markdown or inline text styles for local formatting. To use markdown in any of your components simply add a format key with the value markdown.

Note: markdown is only applied to components that have a component text style and when you have markdown applied all inline text styles are ignored for that component.