I am looking to create an emoji keyboard, which works similar to the native one on iPhone.
Currently all apps that provide a keyboard, do not let you insert an emoji inline with the text.. rather they provide you the ability to 'paste' it in like an image.
In addition to this, if an emoji is sent to a user that doesnt have the app installed, will they see the 'emoji' or will it display as a bunch of random characters?
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction, as I cannot find the detail I am looking for.
Thanks
As for creating custom keyboards, you should get started by reading Apple's official documentation on the subject.
To answer your question about displaying Emoji: Any platform that supports Emoji will see them as an Emoji. A good source to see which platforms support it is CanIEmoji.com. Any other platforms will likely display it as an empty square, since it is not a supported character.
Any custom emoji keyboard you create will show up like a picture attachment, iOS especially doesn't allow custom inline emojis. Check out these two articles they might help with even more info:
https://www.bluecloudsolutions.com/blog/emoji-apps/
https://medium.com/#mantia/so-you-want-to-build-an-emoji-keyboard-26450ba5136a
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I would like to highlight a part of text in a UITextView like Pages for iOS or Safari for iOS do. I search the documentation but I can't find a way to do it, maybe because I'm a beginner in iOS development and I miss some crucial info. Somebody can help me?
Screenshot of Pages for iOS:
Screenshot of Safari for iOS:
If you only need to highlight a single, contiguous block of text you can set the selection programmatically. Your examples show multiple discontinuous parts however. For that you are going to need to use an attributed string. There is no other system-provided highlighting function. (There might be a third party library that offers this though - you'll have to search.)
I understand there are 1127 apps about custom emoji keyboard on App Store. Since I wish to not put the exact app idea here, I will give an example.
If I wish to build a custom keyboard with custom emojis, is it actually possible? I don't only mean if that is possible technically. I'm also asking if Apple actually allow it?
I tried doing my research and some sites say, they only allow emojis that are built into the phone and not custom.
Again, I don't want to make a chat app where my emojis will be useable. I want to make a keyboard app and if both users have the keyboard, the emojis will work perfectly. The keyboard should be useable throughout iOS environment.
Is this possible and does Apple allow it?
If yes, I would really appreciate some starting point guidelines since I'm a VERY new to iOS.
Thank you!
No its not possible:The problem which will arise is that you would have to add your emoji by sending a request to http://unicode.org/consortium/consort.html.
This is the institute will accept/reject new emojis supported by ios and andriod.
Actually the emojis are unicode characters that are decoded by os.So if you try to add a unicode by yourself that will not be decoded by os.
Your unicode characters can be decoded if you use them in an app not in keyboard extension.Than your app can decode it.e.g say {186abjd} = {your image} than for decoding you can check the string for {186abjd} if that text is found replace it by your image.Remember that this can't be an emoji as emoji are text and you cannot use text.
From iOS 8 it is possible to add custom keyboard from our application which can be used system wide.
I need to create such a keyboard which can be used to input custom characters(a new language). I have these characters as images.
How can I use these images to input as characters from the keyboard into a textfield?
Please suggest any tips, link, methods etc..
Thanks in advance
You cannot put custom images in text fields because they are used to input text, not images.
The only possibility is custom font with images, but it will not be available system-wide and text fields are under control of the host app. For the available methods to insert characters see this documentation page
Try to follow this guide. Actually I've found plenty of similar guides using google.
Also Apple's custom keyboard guidelines might be helpful
HERE IS SAMPLE IMAGE -->
I'm trying to make text input feature very similar to Facebook's one. The mention that start with # will generate list of my friends name then selecting one will act as something like an object. So deleting the highlighted word will remove whole word in UITextView.
I wonder if that is part of UITextView. Does anyone know how to implement?
Thank you in advance.
I know this is a pretty old question but I've actually made libraries that assist with mentions, when to show the list, does the highlighting etc. It uses attributes on an attributed string to set background.
https://github.com/szweier/SZMentions
https://github.com/szweier/SZMentionsSwift
You'll want to have a look at NSAttributedString. While this class exists in iOS 3.2 or greater, you cannot display it in a UITextView unless you are on iOS 6 or later.
I've read a lot of topics about developing a custom keyboard for iOS and it's clear that it is impossible to build a system-wide alternative keyboard.
But I still try to understand how Emoji keyboard(the emoticons additional layer) could make it possible and it is an official app on AppStore (that means it passes Apple approval!).
Note that their keyboard, once installed, can be added in Keyboard section in Settings!
Thanks for help
Emoji apps enable a by-default-disabled keyboard built into iOS. If I recall correctly, it's enabled by default in certain regions (Japan) but disabled in most places. So they aren't adding a new keyboard, just revealing one that's already there.
edit: ... and here's how they do it
The Emoji Icons are a stored in the private use area of unicode. They won't look any good on a different device than an iPhone/iPad, this is Apple specific.
The app is just to enable the keyboard. You can do it yourself: Making An Emoji Enabeling App.
Have a look at The truth about iPhone Emoji, which sheds some light on the whole topic.