Is it possible to create a custom keyboard for iPhone or iPad in iOS 5 or later?
My thinking is I have to create my own keyboard with some icons. And It will popup custom keyboard while beginning the text in textfield.
Is It possible?
Thanks In advance.
You can make a custom input view, but within your application only (i.e. you cannot replace the keyboard across the entire device): https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/InputViews/InputViews.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009542-CH12-SW2
Essentially you just assign your custom view to the inputView property of a UITextView (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITextField_Class/Reference/UITextField.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITextField/inputView) and your custom view will be shown when your input becomes the first responder.
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I want to do a customised keyboard. Either
1. Create a view with all the buttons similar to default keyboard present but with some changes in the controls.
OR
2. Is it possible to change the color of already present keyboard or its alphabets/numbers.
Is it possible to do either of them? Is there anything similar to this?
Yes, you can, and it's not difficult. In iOS versions 3.2 and greater, you can set the inputView property for any responder. When that responder becomes first responder, the input view will be displayed.
i would to know if there is a way to show(call) an iphone-uikeybord-like inside a UIPopOverController. I've an ipad app with several functions, in one of these there is a button that show a popoover, inside the popover there are a uitableviewcontroller and a search controller for search functions inside the table; search stuff is numeric only and i want show a keyboard(like numberpad in iphone) inside the popover instead show the maxi ipad keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
Sure you can do that - but you'll have to build a custom keyboard.
I did exactly the same thing to create a numeric keypad after playing around trying to use a different UIControl for the text field input without much success.
My solution was specific to our app because we also wanted - and + keys to adjust the value without by tapping, but what I ended up doing was:
extend UITextField
add - and + buttons next to it
add a transparent button on top of the numeric field
trigger UIPopOverController when the transparent button was tapped
the popover loaded a NumericKeypad with it's own view
Although I usually try to use IB as much as possible in this case all buttons and target assignments were done in code (for easy of calculating relative positions in code)
The creation of the keyboard itself is really easy - it's just a bunch of buttons. You can either build in IB or programmatically - quite simple either way.
I want to create one keyboard application that is not in iPhone international keyboard, but I don't know how I add this application to international keyboard, I want to do one work like emoji application, but my app is not emotion!
Thanks for your help.
Your application can display a custom keyboard from any TextView or TextField by returning a custom UIView (that would be your keyboard) from the inputView property on those text input views. There is no existing keyboard to inherit from, so you'll have to implement everything your self.
How do I create a transparent numberpad view for a passcode view ?
Like this ?
I wrote a keypad, that is configurable through a delegate.
This method
-(UIImage *)backgroundImageForState:(UIControlState)state
forKeyAtRow:(int)row
andColumn:(int)column;
should return a transparent image.
The buttons on this keypad are custom buttons with corresponding images and black background color and they are made semitransparent.
Create a custom viewController that contains all the buttons necessary, and then find a way to hook it up to a custom uiview that will intercept the input, or have a delegate for it, and intercept the input from the delegate and put the text in a uitextfield (or whatever). If you want the apple keyboard to be show, I know of only one way: have users jailbreak their iDevices and create a custom keyboard skin and put it in a Cydia repo.
Anyone has any idea how one can achieve the same look as when you press on the "From:" in the Mail iphone app when you have more than one user account.
I'd like to remove my keyboard, but WITHOUT animating it. Rather just disappear and instead of it have a UIPickerView appear.
Thanks much!
Since iOS 3.2 you can set the inputView property of a UITextField to a custom view. This view is then shown instead of the keyboard as input for that view.
There's no way to achieve this before iOS 3.2 I know.
UITextField Class Reference