I want to have a custom keyboard (without full-screen keyboard) instead of default keyboard in my apple tv app?
If possible, what are the approaches should I follow?
Any suggestions appreciated.
The SearchTemplate is the only keyboard available for TVML, and there isn't a whole lot you can do with it.
But with TVML, there's 2 ways you can do redo the keyboard
1) using section with lockup and some TVJS, to create your own keyboard. Each lockup can be a character and onclick, can trigger tvjs to record and display the character into a label. Should be relative easy to implement, specially if you are only dealing with a small set of characters, like numbers.
2) custom element, as described in the docs, you can use native code to define any element and.. you can make your own keyboard that way.
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Update
Somehow I missed the form template. This template included a keyboard too. And, you can *customize this keyboard!
The textField element provides a field for users to enter text, which also accepts the keyboardType attribute for selecting the type of keyboard to display. It even has support for number and URL inputs.
(*basic customization lol)
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I have a UITextField that only requires specific character input, and I was wondering if it was possible to create a custom keyboard inside an iOS 8 app. Specifically the characters i want are a collection of logical symbols (which have unicode values) and some standard characters like parenthesis etc.
I would ideally like to override/overlay the current buttons on a UIKeyboard but still have the same kind of functionality such as being able to input characters where the cursor position is currently in the text field.
I know that you can create custom keyboards through an app extension but this is not what i want, i just want a keyboard to be used inside the app and no where else. If i am wrong, can i create an app extension keyboard to only be used within the app? that doesn't have to installed via Settings?
You can override the inputView property on your UITextField and return a view containing the keyboard. You must implement the keyboard functionality yourself, there is no way to access anything on the built in keyboard.
Does anyone know how to change the word completion view's frame ?
The view appears when you type in some characters in a text view. but it always appears on the bottom of the character you type.
I found that iPhone message and Skype has put it to the top of the textView, how did they do that? should I define the keyboard myself or just implements some delegate methods?
From what I observe, the autocorrect suggestion is automatically positioned above the line where text is being typed if it is close enough to the on-screen keyboard, such that placing the suggestion below would cause the keyboard to obscure it.
My best guess is that this is determined and handled by the system and that there aren't any APIs to control where the suggestion appears, how to style it, etc.
I want to create my own number pad to appear after user focus the textfield, so I have two question about it?
1.I use "Interface Builder to add a textfield in my view and select the "Number Pad" as the default pad for user to input number, so when I click the textfield, the number pad appear automaticlly, how can I stop it appear the number pad? because I want to show my number pad.
2.If I custom a view with number button inside it, how can I detect the event when I click the textfield? and whether after I detect the event I add a subview to show my custom number pad or not?
thanks
If you are creating a custom number pad (I assume this means a view with a grid of buttons), don't bother using a UITextField; there is no easy way to hide the native keyboard and, for all that trouble, there is nothing useful that the text field gives you.
I recommend creating a custom UIControl subclass. You can detect a touch inside the view and show your custom keypad that way. The documentation explains this pretty well.
I have a partial answer but not an ideal one, and I haven't tried this myself. Take a look at the documentation for the UITextFieldDelegate protocol.
You could have your controller set textField.delegate = self, then have it implement textFieldShouldBeginEditing to show your specialized keyboard somehow and then return NO so that it doesn't go into edit mode. When you tell your special keyboard to show itself, pass it a reference to the text field so it knows where to insert characters. The problem is that this probably won't show a cursor and won't let the user move the cursor to insert characters, etc.
So really this a bit ugly, but it may be sufficient. AFAIK there is no good way to do this :(
We are trying to write a training manual application for the iPhone. On the top half of the screen is a diagram of a car engine, on the bottom half is some text. At the user repeatedly hits a "next" button, we highlight different parts of the engine, and in concert we highlight different parts of the descriptive text below.
We basically want "living text" in the text half, with the illustration following along on top to where the reader is in the text. What we'd like from the text is 1. user can scroll it using their thumb so possibly a UIScrollView 2. the software can explicitly drive a scroll to any part of the text (when they hit the "next" button). 3. the words in the text are interspersed with hotlinks e.g. "this is the camshaft... this is the piston..." and the user should be able to click on any of the keywords like camshaft, piston, and have the diagram highlight that. (The problem is not highlighting the diagram, its capturing the click). The text would have 300~400 buttons/links/keywords and about 600 words of text.
Since this is fairly similar to using a web browser, we tried using Apple's version of webkit using a UIWebView and handleOpenURL to register a service back to the app itself. But Webkit for internal links a popup comes up asking permission to access that link. Every single the user wants to go to a link (in our case just an internal event that we'd intercept so that we can highlight e.g. the camshaft). Tried to intercept the event from the HTML view, but that didn't work.
It seems like the best we can do is to abandon scrolling text, and make the text part more like flash cards or a power point presentation, breaking the text into custom UIViewCells with buttons inside a UIScrollView. However, this would impose an annoying constraint on the author that they would have to write everything to fit in the UIViewCells, sort of chunky.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
This is definitely something you can use a UIWebView for. Don't use handleOpenURL, rather, set your viewController as the webview's delegate, and override -webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:. When this gets called, check the request, and pull out your link data from there.
It would probably be easier to implement that completely in JavaScript in the document you load in a UIWebView. You would have to use JavaScript (i.e. [UIWebView stringbyevaluatingjavascriptfromstring:]) anyway to achieve things like scrolling to a certain position.
My users need to enter latitude and longitude, and of course I need to verify that the values entered are legitimate lat/long value. I'd like to have a keyboard layout that does some of this for me (eliminating alphabetic characters, punctuation, etc, and leaving only the numbers and +/-). The number pad keyboard doesn't seem to do it (missing +/-) and neither do any other keyboard layouts that come with the SDK. Does anyone know if there is a way to provide that capability without doing my own keyboard IME and jailbreaking the phone?
Thanks!
I know this is answer is way late, but this topic was still relevant to me. Therefore I have hope the following will help someone who comes across this page.
Bryan S. Gruver posted a full Xcode project that lambdabunny could modify ever so slightly in order to achieve their aim. You can find it here:
http://brygruver.squarespace.com/blog/2009/10/1/creating-a-custom-number-pad.html
Update
The Squarespace link is now broken. Another option is:
https://github.com/lnafziger/Numberpad
How about placing a "+/-" button next to your UITextView that would switch the sign of the entered text? Or a "+" button that appears to the left of it that switches the button label from "+" to "-" each time you tap it.
You don't have to jailbreak.
If you create a view to simulate the keyboard you're still following the SDK rules.