iOS: Disable keyboard when begin editing TextField - ios

Question

How can I disable the keyboard when I touch-up inside a UITextField?
What I want to do is show a custom digital keyboard instead of the default one.

Answer 1

If I understand correctly that you are looking to create a custom keyboard in the app, I don't think we need to disable the default keyboard when we touch-up inside a UITextField.
We just need to create a custom view and assign it to the inputView property of the UITextField to replace the default keyboard.
For example, something like this:
yourTextField.inputView = yourCustomKeyboardView
See more here.

Answer 2

Note: For Objective-C (Xcode)
In your viewDidLoad: set delegate for textfields which you want to disable.
self.textfield.delegate = self;
and insert this delegate function:
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
if (textField == yourTextfiledOutletInstance) {
[self showCustomkeyboard];
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
//Show custom keyboard
-(void)showCustomkeyboard{
// Handle your operation here to show custom keyboard
}

Answer 3

set the UITextField delegate in the ViewController class, and then add this method in the class
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
}

Answer 4

Use resignFirstResponder to dismiss your keyboard.
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
}
set inputView on the UITextView to the custom view you want to be used in place of the system keyboard.
myTextView.inputView = myCustomView;