I am currently in the process of building a custom keyboard for IOS devices and wanted to add a custom EMOJI keyboard as well. I have a sheet of custom emoticons already created and do not want the user to have to copy and paste into their message like on the Ikea Emoticon keyboard. Is it possible to have a clone of apples keyboard functionality but with my own emoticons?
If you have something similar like below (emoticon icon)
You can make a slideout UIView with a bunch of your custom emojis using UICollectionView. If the user taps on an emoji it would insert your own Unicode Emoji Text (just example).
You will have to make your own if statements if the text contains emoji unicode to make the emojis appear in your text.
This is how I understand it, I might be wrong, if so, please correct me. :)
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In my iOS app, I want users to name things they create using emoji only. Ideally, when the special text field becomes active, I want the emoji keyboard to be presented, but without an option to change the language. I've been under the impression it's simply not possible to force this until I found out that's exactly what standard iOS 14 Reminders app does.
When editing the list of reminders, one may tap smiling face and choose one of the emojis. Notice how there's no globe to switch the language.
How can I achieve the same in UIKit or SwiftUI? I don't see any "emoji" UIKeyboardType
I'm building a chat app using MessageKit, Firebase and InputBarAccessoryView pods.
I've found out that when I input a Memoji (aka sticker) in the textfield of the InputBar and press the "send" button, in the database the Memoji will be saved as "\n", which of course will be rendered as a blank bubble in the receiving user screen. The issue is exclusive to Memoji, regular emojis works fine.
Before sending, I already check if the user is trying to send an empty string, and if the case the message is not sent at all to the database, but I don't know how to check if a Memoji is being input.
Plus, in the textbar the Memoji is rendered awfully, see pic here, so the best solution would be cutting the problem at its roots and removing the option to input Memoji in the textfield or directly removing them from the keyboard.
I'm searching for a way to to remove Memoji from users keyboard, or to handle at best these issues, but i've found nothing googling.
Memojis work this way: when selected from the keyboard, they are pasted into the TextView.
So i just found a decent solution directly from the InputBar API:
messageInputBar.inputTextView.isImagePasteEnabled = false
This removes the possibility to paste images in the TextView, and alongside Memojis are removed from the keyboard.
At present I am working on GIF keyboard plugin for iOS.
Following github link give me good start to move ahead.
SamStone92/kanyekeyboad
I want to put my custom emojies over custom keyboard. Using above reference project I can able to achieve same thing but in this there is one problem exist and that is very frustrating for end user.
Problem: To place any emoji into text area, first you need to click on emoji from keyboard then Copy button is available for you, you need to press that.
Then you need to touch on text area, at that time another button with label Paste is available on screen. You need to press this button to get actual emoji in text area. I want to remove this.
Following image gives you more idea:
Target: I want to implement, you just need to touch on keyboard emoji and it will directly paste on text area. Like we are doing in Skype or any other messaging application.
Is it possible to remove letter upper from keyboard ?
Not if its the standard UIKeyboard. You can roll your own keyboard that does not support uppercase. Alternatively, for an easier solution you can make all text lowercase when entered via a bit of code.
You can create your Custom Keyboard with iOS8 App Extension. Try this tutorial :
http://www.appcoda.com/custom-keyboard-tutorial/
Also check at developer.apple.com :
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
A custom keyboard replaces the system keyboard for users who want
capabilities such as a novel text input method or the ability to enter
text in a language not otherwise supported in iOS. The essential
function of a custom keyboard is simple: Respond to taps, gestures, or
other input events and provide text, in the form of an unattributed
NSString object, at the text insertion point of the current text input
object.
I am building a project for iOS8 in swift. The default and dark options for keyboard in xcode do not go with the color theme for my app design.
Is there a simple way for to change the colors in the keybaord?
The short answer is no you can't change the look and feel of the system keyboard. Even if you did many people don't even use the default keyboards.
With iOS 8 apple introduced custom keyboard extension.
A custom keyboard replaces the system keyboard for users who want
capabilities such as a novel text input method or the ability to enter
text in a language not otherwise supported in iOS. The essential
function of a custom keyboard is simple: Respond to taps, gestures, or
other input events and provide text, in the form of an unattributed
NSString object, at the text insertion point of the current text input
object.
And here's some useful tutorials about how to create custom keyboard :
http://www.appdesignvault.com/ios-8-custom-keyboard-extension/
https://www.weheartswift.com/make-custom-keyboard-ios-8-using-swift/