How to Create Custom Keyboards in iOS
How to Create Custom Keyboards in iOS
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Join For FreeFor our Underutilized iOS Feature Of The Week award, how about UITextField/UITextView’s inputView field? Probably pretty much totally overlooked it, haven’t you? Here’s a sample implementation for next time something like that strikes your fancy (h/t: iOS Dev Weekly):
venmo / VENCalculatorInputView: Calculator keyboard used in the Venmo iOS app:
If you don’t have custom input needs but just want to improve the regular keyboard experience, there’s news for you too: Fleksy has released an iOS SDK that lets users long press to switch keyboards, if they’ve installed the free Fleksy app:
And here’s another project to improve the default keyboard:
tonqa / JustType – The Better Keyboard for iOS
JustType is a keyboard extension using swipe gestures, highlighting and suggestions. It is built to be used in any iOS text editor and all text-intensive iOS apps. And it is really easy to use. If you want to have a video demonstration you can find it on this blogpost.
And just as a side caution, if you do get all excited to implement a custom keyboard with transparency and it displays funny in iOS 7, check out this Stack Overflow question!
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