I need to customize the iphone keyboard. How can I do it? Also it is needed to place the return key of the keyboard with my project logo. How is it possible?
You cannot customize the apple iOS's default keyboard.
As such you can create a custom control similar to apple iOS's keyboard and make it look and customize as you want but then there ar more chances than not that your app may be rejected when you try to submit your app on the Apple's app store.
So it is not preferable to create custom keyboard.
Hope this helps you.
What have we done in one of our apps and you can do is create custom uibutton that is same size as return key, then register for UIKeyboardWillShowNotification and UIKeyboardWillHideNotification.
when one of those fire you should add/remove that uibutton to window with animation that tracks keyboard showing/hiding animation...
Ugly way to do it, but it served its purpose...
Some of the tutorials are incomplete or are much older. This tutorial works from IOS 4.3 onwards and I checked it. Save the two image graphics, and paste in the code. There is very little to change. Here is the link.
ps. I am not affiliated in any way with this article, but found it to be complete.
http://www.neoos.ch/blog/37-uikeyboardtypenumberpad-and-the-missing-return-key
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Is there a way to make my app override the current font of the currently foreground application?
What I have in mind is no matter which app is on foreground my app to be able to attach a button to the keyboard which will switch the font to a custom one thus overriding the current font for all ui elements(labels, buttons, text fields etc.).
What you're looking for is not allowed by Apple.
It seems it can be done for jailbroken devices though. It's difficult to tell how exactly they're doing it but I guess they meddled around with the images/colors provided by Apple for the keyboard and replaced them with their custom ones leaving the default un-recoverable.
Here's a blog about it too.
You can create a category on UIFont and replace systemFontWithName:size: and boldSystemFontWithName:size: with your own font. But this may have some weird side effects, as even alertViews and actionSheets are customized with that method..
edit: of course this works only in your own app.. you cannot change anything outside of your app.
I've got an app that appeals to an older demographic. The interface is simple but with some custom controls where a simple graphic is not completely self explanatory (save to playlist, sort by genre for example).
I've seen plenty of apps with great first run walkthroughs (examples here) but don't know if there are some existing libraries out there.
Your suggestions are welcome.
I found CMPopTipView that, while it doesn't fit my needs completely may be of use to those that are looking to pop a tool tip every now and then.
Most of these overlays/walkthroughs can be accomplished by adding a subview to the main window of your app. There are some edge cases to take into account, but for the most part, you need to simply grab a reference to the key window with
UIWindow* keyWindow;
keyWindow = [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow;
You then would add your overlay view as a subview with:
[keyWindow addSubview:anOverlayView];
Handling taps to dismiss the overlay can be done with a tap gesture recognizer.
If you are looking to create a click-through demo which runs in the browser and on mobile devices, AppDemoStore is the right tool for you. You just have to upload some relevant app screenshots, add hotspots for the navigation between the screens and callouts for explanations. It takes only a couple of minutes and it's free.
Regards,
Daniel
Xcode4 introduced the gray-rounded-square style non-modal alerts that momentarily appear as required. For an example, see 'Build Succeeded'. iirc, this style of non-modal alert is also used elsewhere in Lion.
Now, also iirc, I believe I saw some official iPhone sample code showing how they recommend this effect is achieved in iPhone Apps, but I can't find it again. I'd like to use in my App this to achieve a consistent style.
If someone recalls what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate a link. Thanks.
I think you're talking about the bezel notification style? On iOS, I know SSToolkit has support for such a display (under HUD View).
Another way: This uses MBProgressHUD and provides sample code.
I think you can do it using a momentary UIActivityIndicator. Something like this
EDIT: or this
EDIT: The idea is the same, a custom activity indicator. The above answer gives you some more specific links to your problem. But well it is an activity indicator you're looking for.
Anyone knows how they did this UI keyboard:
http://img87.imageshack.us/i/tastiera.png/ ?
Thanks,
Fabrizio
The only way to tell if it is a custom UIView is to see if it lacks the features of the normal keyboard. I simply cannot believe anyone completely duplicated the keyboard feature for feature just to change the tint of it.
If it is not a custom UIView, then that leaves only one other option: private API calls. Is this app on the App Store? Private APIs are a no-no of course so I doubt this is the standard keyboard and available on the App Store.
UPDATE:
Of course, now we have Extensions with iOS 8 and you can create your own custom keyboards. It doesn't help make creating a keyboard any easier.
Yes, seems to be a custom UIView with Custom UIButtons.
I was trying to find a way to adjust my screen when keyboard slides up so that the text field being edited (UITextView in my case) slides up and stays in focus instead of getting hidden behind the keyboard.
I saw a few discussion on google groups mentioning - autoresizesForKeyboard -
http://groups.google.com/group/three20/browse_thread/thread/38bdadc89a1f35f8/2f8b92a6058cf136?lnk=raot&pli=1
I was not able to figure out how to use it or find any documentation for it.
Then I saw how Apple recommends to do it -
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/KeyboardManagement/KeyboardManagement.html
However autoresizesForKeyboard sounds too intriguingly simple. Can someone please shed some light on this?
autoresizesForKeyboard is part of the Three20 library and is a property of the TTViewController class.
http://api.three20.info/interface_t_t_view_controller.html#acc0ff2c5d115eb977aaac419cb64f62b
"Three20 is an iPhone development library. It's the code that powers the Facebook iPhone app and many other apps in the app store."
http://three20.info/