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.
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I'm wanting to implement a custom popup window within an iPhone app that contains buttons and labels.
One solution I've found is to simply create a hidden UIView in the same View Controller (How to make a popup window with an image SWIFT) and then making hidden = false. I feel like this shouldn't be the "best" way to do this, just due to the way I'll be working with multiple interfaces in the same View Controller.
Another method is forcing a non-fullscreen popover on iPhone (http://richardallen.me/2014/11/28/popovers.html), but this doesn't seem to play well with containing other elements like buttons and labels.
Is it possible to create a custom popup window for iPhone - which can hold buttons and labels - that can be implemented from a separate View Controller in my Storyboard? It has to be in a way that doesn't hide my main UI behind a fullscreen popover. Preferably one that can be easily animated using UIView.animateWithDuration.
Just looking for some starting directions so I can go learn more about implementing it. Or is stacking it with my other UI in the main View Controller the best way to go?
add a UIView container and make it's alpha = 0. If you want to show it you can increase the alpha to 1. And simply add a exit button to your container to decrease the alpha to 0.
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.
I'd like to change the appearance of the default UISearchBar. As an example, how would you recreate the search box in the Google iPhone app as seen below? How would you overlay an image to produce this effect?
(source: isedb.com)
Upon some investigating of possibilites to customize the search bar, I'm inclined to say this is a custom component that has nothing to do with UISearchBar, but instead recreates its functionality.
You don't need to subclass anything.
Create a new UIView that has the buttons and text field and then when then entire view is going to load do this:
[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar addSubview:customSearchBarView];
Make sure to set the new text field as the first responder so it has access to the keyboard.
How in the world does one get the iPhone view to zoom in on a focused UITextField? I need to tap on a text field that I want to edit, and my view should zoom in to the tapped text field and pull up the keyboard (which it already does), similar to how many Internet text fields gain focus on the iPhone. Is this some type of overlay?
I've been looking everywhere for this solution but maybe I've just got the wrong terminology. Thank you in advance.
Could be a duplicate of this StackOverflow question.
In essence, there are a number of ways, but you have to program this effect manually. A textfield is already an overlay. You can either move it, or scroll the containing view.
Please follow the following steps.
Implement the delegate method for all textfield.connect the outlet of textfield in interface builder basically it's setting the delegate property.then in delegate property you can defined the method whatever you want to implement or wanted to do functionality.
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I want to add some custom buttons and realize the same effect like the iPhone's home screen. What I can think of is to calculate the position of each button and add them to the view. Are there any other ways to do this? e.g. add buttons to the tableview
Check TTLauncherView from Three20,
I realized the same view of the thumbnails in the photo app (which in principle differs only because of the background color and the rounded effect of the buttons) using a custom cell (with 4 UIButtons inside) in a normal tableview.
In my case, this is because I need to scroll up and down, in your specific case there should be a way to "lock" the table from scrolling. By the way, for this reason, it could be simpler to design the custom view in the interface builder, it is very quick to design such a view, and then create a custom controller to provide simple methods to assign icons and actions to the UIButtons dynamically.
You could also look at the Three20 libraries as already suggested, it is already implemented, but you app will easily be rejected by Apple if you do so.