I have one UITextView in my iOS project, when user taps in the text view, if using soft keyboard, the notification keyboardWillShow will be called. My question is if user uses an external hardware keyboard such as bluetooth keyboard, is there any way to know when it is active?
Few Functionalities like
Camera
Push Notifications
bluetooth Keyboard
For these, you need to use Real device instead of simulator. I haven't tested bluetooth keyboard functionality in realtime. but i'm pretending it was one of the feature that to be tested on real device.Please Make me correct if i was thinking wrong.
I have verified that if I use simulator the sofewareWillShow will not trigger, but if I use iPad device and connect to bluetooth keyboard it will be called. The iOS version is 12
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Is there a possibility to select "OK"/"another option" answer in iOS system popups when an external entry device is connected using by this device?
I'm using Bluetooth device (iRig BluetTurn/iRig BlueBoard). This is a device connecting via Bluetooth (one as a keyboard, another with different protocol). They have 2 or 4 buttons. I am using it as next/previous buttons to navigate the app, because the user cannot use his hands. It's working perfectly, but if iOS shows a popup (eg. that there's new software update) the user is blocked, because he can't dismiss it (can't touch screen).
I strongly doubt it, but does anyone have an idea that it would be possible to answer these iOS system popup questions via external bluetooth device? I want to point I'm not a manufacturer of this device, I can't change how the buttons respond.
I want to my computer to be perceived by the iphone as an external keyboard. For example, I connect an iphone to a computer via a lightning cable and run the Pages on the Iphone and my computer starts sending text via the lightning cable and this text is displayed in the pages. The question. What can I read about it?
Already answered here.
What you are looking for is to use your Mac/PC keyboard for inputing text in your iOS devices, which is pretty reasonable since iPhone’s relative small screen doesn’t make for a great keyboard.
This can be done and there are quite a few apps to achieve what you want. You download the app in your PC/MAC and they all work by presenting the hardware keyboard as Bluetooth keyboards, then the iOS device seamlessly connects to it. For example http://www.acrosscenter.com/ or https://www.houdah.com/type2Phone/.
I'm building an ios app with an alarm feature. I would like to show a view when phone is locked. I want to look exactly like on iOS alarm. If you're an iPhone user try to alarm and locked your phone you will get what i'm talking about. Is it possible? If possible how?
Thanks in advance.
iOS doesn't provide apps that kind of access to the lock screen (or any screen not in your app), so it's impossible to make it exactly like the iOS native alarm. The closest you can get is sending notifications to simulate an alarm, which are visible on the lock screen
Is there any way anyone knows of to force the onscreen software keyboard in iOS when a Bluetooth HID device (like a barcode scanner) is active?
There are a few ancient questions on SO, but most work by manually adjusting the frame of the keyboard view, and that method no longer appears to work as of iOS 8.
Strangely there doesn't seem to be any information on how to do this post iOS 8. Is it just impossible?
See:
Show iPhone soft keyboard even though a hardware keyboard is connected
Force on screen keyboard to show when bluetooth keyboard connected
Default keyboard is not coming when Barcode Scanner Device is Connected by Bluetooth in IOS
Bluetooth HID Device & iOS textFields
Show virtual Keyboard when bluetooth keyboard connected?
My app receives UIKeyboardDidShowNotification and related notifications when it's the focused app. But if another app is focused in the split multitasking view, it no longer receives it. I was testing this in simulator since my physical device don't support split view.
Is this a known simulator bug? Am I missing some configuration options? Does it work as expected on iPad Air 2?
The expected functionality is actually that your app, even when it is not focused, will receive keyboard notifications.
It is mentioned in Getting Started with Multitasking on iPad in iOS 9 WWDC Video at 29:45.