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.
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I use UISearchController to search inline with keyboard, textfield and results in one screen. Does tvOS allow to customize keyboard? I want to use dark design, but I don't know how to customize the keyboard.
For example YouTube app did that. They have black screen with white keyboard
A UISearchController has a UISearchBar, which conforms to UITextInputTraits. This means it has a keyboardAppearance which you can set to UIKeyboardAppearanceDark to get a dark keyboard appearance. This isn't identical to what happens in the YouTube app, but it's probably the closest you can get.
From the Apple TvOS docs here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppleTV_PG/CreatingaGreatTextInputExperience.html
"Use UIAlertController or UITextField to customize the keyboard experience and create keyboards specific to your app; for example, an email-specific keyboard or a numeric keyboard. Both UIAlertController and UITextField support all of the available options in UIKit/UITextInputTrailts.h. The inputAccessoryView and inputAccessoryViewController APIs also allow you to customize the keyboard experience."
It seems you can create custom keyboards but maybe not if you're using UISearchController. This document implies that you have to use UITextField in order to customize the keyboard. So it would be a little bit more work but if you don't like the default experience of the UISearchController it shouldn't be that hard to wire up a TableView with a textfield in order to change the user experience.
I don't think tvOS allows customizing keyboards yet, because in Application Extension section of tvOS there is no Custom Keyboard thing the way there is for iOS.
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.
There is this app called "Color Keyboard" which changes the keyboard appearance for iOS. It is on the App Store. How is that possible?
How can I change the color of the keyboard in my app?
Say you've got a UITextField named myTextField, you can use any UIView as your custom keyboard for this text field by setting its inputView property.
Thus you can create an UIView full of buttons, which looks like a keyboard, and attach it to your view.
This applies to any UIResponder, not only text fields.
i would like to sort of embed the chinese handwriting keyboard into a view in my app. That is to say, i don't want it connected to the real keyboard. In fact, I don't even want it visible to the user. I'd like the user to simply be able to handwrite in the center of a blank screen, and have a chinese character output on the screen after completion. is this even possible?
The only way you could support handwriting would be to write a view which never became firstResponder (preventing the keyboard from appearing), userInteractionEnabled=YES (to get touches), and uses the touchesMoved to draw the characters as the user moves their finger.
You can implement a custom keyboard by returning a custom keyboard UIView from the inputView property on UITextView and similar text input views.
Is it known how to get the keypad interface from the Phone and Skype apps? This is distinct from the modal keypad view that appears when a UITextField becomes the first responder.
Is this just a UIView that the developers of Skype laid out themselves in IB, complete with custom graphics to get the square shape of each button? Or is there some standard Cocoa Touch way to do it?
This isn't something that Cocoa Touch provides out of the box, no. I would imagine that the iPhone keypad is a set of UIButton objects arranged like a keypad and using custom graphics to get the visual appearance. This should be fairly easy to do in Interface Builder.
You may be looking for UIKeyboardType in the protocol UITextInputTraits, which is implemented by UITextField etc.. See the documentation at that link.
I was getting confused by your question too. I'm not aware of any but seeing as you would need somewhere to type in anyway wouldn't it be better to make the UITextField active on viewWillAppear and turn off touches on the rest of the view hence showing the keypad like the phone app?