I'm working on dictionary and trying to give user possibility to choose keyboard he gonna use. Is there a way to get array of system keyboards just like in Settings>General>Keyboard>Keyboards>Add New Keyboard... ?
Question wasn't correct at all. There's no need in getting list, because there's no way to change keyboard language programatically. Instead founded this solution:
Change Language in the app programmatically
And here is list of languages suppored in IOS:
http://www.ibabbleon.com/iOS-Language-Codes-ISO-639.html
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I am working at chatApplication where i need to enable the phone number and link detection while magnifying property set to no like whatsApp and iMessage do. What component should i use for that?
go with the textview. because it'll be also possible with textview to detect number and link. webview also good option.
but as you mention, you want to make chat Application than if you also want to provide the functionality for select,copy,etc. than Textview is the good one.
My application uses Cordova so a number of functions are performed in the webview.
There is an object in one of my webviews that brings up the keyboard.
All the documentation and SO answers on changing the keyboard involve setting the values of the first responder. My problem is, on the native side, I do not have the first responder.
So my question is:
Can I get access to the keyboard object without the first responder, and if so how?
Swift/Obj-c answers welcome
You can use UIReturnKeyType for native controls, but unfortunately there is no way to control the return key for text fields within a webview. You might be able to figure out some sort of hacky solution though.
One idea is to manually modify the keyboard views. There's an Apache plugin that uses this to hide the form accessory bar on keyboards. You can see how they do it here. You would have to find the return key's view instead of the form bar though. Of course this isn't supported and is likely to break at some point.
Another option might be to use swizzling to modify UIWebView to use the UIReturnKeyType you want. You'd have to look into dumping the headers to find a possible starting point. This option also has the potential to break along with a chance Apple rejects your app.
I am making an app where I use the "People" emojis as avatar faces and the "Food and drink" emojis for, well, food and drink icons. I would like to use the regular keyboard for presenting the emojis for user input, but I would like to present only these two categories of emojis (and even so, each category would be presented in a different context).
I am working with iOS 8, Xcode 6.3 and Swift.
Can I configure the regular keyboard so that it only shows a subset of emojis which I define?
If not, can I create a new custom keyboard preserving everything from the original Apple keyboard but limiting the subset of characters? Any pointers on how to do this?
Thanks.
You can not configure the regular keyboard so that it only shows a subset of emojis. But yes can make your own custom keyboard.
You can find some really good posts about how to make the custom keyboards:
http://verisage.us/en/blog/2014/07/17/ios-8-custom-keyboard-swift-tutorial/
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ios-8-creating-a-custom-keyboard-in-swift--cms-22344
Also I found this FaceBoardPlus sample: http://code4app.net/ios/FaceBoardPlus/52a9ba56cb7e841e178b69d0 which is exactly what you are looking for but written in objective c.
EDIT: From iOS developer library:
After a user chooses a custom keyboard, it becomes the keyboard for
every app the user opens. For this reason, a keyboard you create must,
at minimum, provide certain base features. Most important, your
keyboard must allow the user to switch to another keyboard.
To provide a fully custom keyboard for just your app or to supplement
the system keyboard with custom keys in just your app, the iOS SDK
provides other, better options. Read about custom input views and
input accessory views in Custom Views for Data Input in Text
Programming Guide for iOS.
I have a universal app that requires two text inputs to display a list of options to choose from. I believe the UIPickerView is the best thing for this. However when I display it on the app it does not look good. Is there a standard practice on how this element should be presented ?
Thanks
Solved by dynamically creating the picker and assigning the picker to a text element.
What most people mean by autocomplete is that the app has a textview/searchbar/whatever which accepts user input. Attached to this component is a tableview which keeps updating based on the user input. This is a well researched topic and is now relatively easy to implement thanks to the UISearchDisplay controller.
Now here is what I want. When the user is typing in some text in the UISearchBar, there will be no searchdisplaycontroller. Instead, I want the app to do something like Google Instant on desktops. That is, if I type "Goog", the searchbar should show Goog*le. So the suggestion "le" should be in a lighter font than the rest of the user input string Google. So I don't want an auto-suggest feature, I want an autocomplete feature.
Any ideas on how I can do this?
Thanks!
Alternatively, you can use this UITextField subclass (inspired by DOAutocompleteTextField):
https://github.com/hoteltonight/HTAutocompleteTextField
It's got a few more features and is actively developed. The example shows you how to use an array as the data source for the autosuggest text.
I haven't tried it but here's a control that appears to do what you're asking for:
http://cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/doautocompletetextfield