Is it possible to customize the iPhone keyboard without jailbreaking? I'm trying to design an app that would conform to Apple's guidelines, but implements the use of the international keyboard in the same way that emoji uses it. Please help!
You can always implement a custom keyboard in your app, Like this,
http://a5.mzstatic.com/au/r30/Purple/v4/9a/12/8e/9a128e7d-0e19-2009-1b4f-6cd0ca3a541c/screen568x568.jpeg
Then you can design to whatever you want because it isn't an official iOS keyboard.
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I have a universal app. Will I be able to use the UIPopover View Controller universally (for both iPad and iPhone)?
No. It is only supported on iPad. There are third party widgets that emulate it, but the Apple one will throw an exception if you use it on iPhone.
From the class reference:
Popover controllers are for use exclusively on iPad devices.
Attempting to create one on other devices results in an exception.
See CocoaControls for some substitutes.
As Aaron has already pointed out, UIPopoverView is available only for iPad,
I know from experience that if you implement your own without following the HIG, apple will reject your app, in my case my menu didn't have an arrow pointing to the element triggering it to appear.
iOS Human Interface Guidelines
I am creating a custom keyboard for only numerical input. I would prefer the keyboard look as much like the iOS keyboard as possible, but I am not too sure if the default keyboard button graphics are something we can use or if apple has them locked up.
ARE buttons able to have such a style without having to use images I build myself? Or is the only way to mirror that design by building images that look similar?
Thanks
You're able to define customized keyboards similar to Apple's. Take a look at the project here: https://github.com/kulpreetchilana/Custom-iOS-Keyboards
It contains graphics that emulate the look and feel of the iOS keyboard. It's Cocoapods project as well.
Is it okay use popovers in iPhone app? What Apple's documentation say about that?
I'm not talking about the standard popover (which would throw an exception), but a custom library like this.
Thank you very much!
Apple wont have any problems with any Custom UI. You can go ahead..!!
Yes you can use popovers in iPhone app. The Best example of it is in Facebook app.
Hi can any body suggest me some ideas about creating picker view controls.
I have to transform an iphone app to mac app.
So for that i want to customize my drop down list to look like iphone picker view.
Can i customize. Please suggest is this possible?
Rather than just making an iPhone app that can be launched on Mac OS X, you should make an actual Mac app. In this case, the correct control would be an NSPopUpButton.
You can make any custom view you want, but it's a lot of work, and the standard controls are often better.
For example, UIPickerView is designed for touch-screen usage; NSPopUpButton and NSMenu are designed for mouse and keyboard usage. UIPickerView is great because the apps that use it run on touch-screen hardware. If you try to implement a touch-optimized interface for a mouse-and-keyboard system, the resulting interface will be the worst of both worlds.
Is it allowed to create a custom keyboard. Will apple approve my app if I used my own keyboard instead of using default one. howsoever I don't have button images, I guess I need to use same default keyboard images do so. Is there any image repository where I can get exact keypad button icon.
Thanks
They will almost undoubtedly reject your app.
The iPad Human Interface Guidelines that iPhone OS 3.2 supports keyboard customization http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadHIG/UIElements/UIElements.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009446-CH6-SW7