Custom keyboard is crashing the app - Swift - swift

Question

I'm doing a test of a custom keyboard. This is what I need:
It has to have two UITextFields. Cannot be labels.
The keyboard is an embedded UIView.
The default keyboard should be disabled.
It cannot be a keyboard extension.
Not sure why the app is crashing. PS: Not all the keys are on the code yet. Here is an image of what I'm trying to do and the two View Controllers.
Edit: The error is: Thread 1: Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value
First ViewController:
import UIKit
class HomeVC: UIViewController, ButtonTapDelegate {
#IBOutlet var textField1: UITextField!
#IBOutlet var textField2: UITextField!
#IBOutlet var keyboardView: UIView!
var buttonPressed = [String]()
override func viewDidLoad() {
addKeyboard(view: keyboardView)
buttonPressed = [String]()
textField1.inputView = UIView()
textField2.inputView = UIView()
}
func addKeyboard(view: UIView) {
let keyboard = KeyboardVC(nibName: "KeyboardVC", bundle: nil)
view.addSubview(keyboard.view)
addChild(keyboard)
}
func didTapButton(sender: UIButton) {
if sender.tag == 5 {
textField1.text?.append(contentsOf: " ")
} else if sender.tag == 6 {
textField1.text?.removeAll()
buttonPressed = [String]()
} else {
let val = sender.titleLabel?.text
textField1.text?.append(contentsOf: val!)
}
self.textField1.text = buttonPressed.joined(separator: "")
}
}
Here is the second View Controller:
import UIKit
protocol ButtonTapDelegate {
func didTapButton(sender: UIButton)
}
class KeyboardVC: UIViewController {
var delegate: ButtonTapDelegate!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
#IBAction func buttons(_ sender: UIButton) {
delegate.didTapButton(sender: sender)
print(sender)
}
}

Answer 1

var delegate: ButtonTapDelegate!
An implicitly unwrapped optional is essentially a promise that you're definitely going to give the variable a value before you try to access it. The problem in this case is that you haven't done that. Most likely, you want to do this in your first view controller:
func addKeyboard(view: UIView) {
let keyboard = KeyboardVC(nibName: "KeyboardVC", bundle: nil)
keyboard.delegate = self // Now "delegate" will have a value before the function gets called
view.addSubview(keyboard.view)
addChild(keyboard)
}