I am trying to figure out how to create additional settings inside of the Settings app on iOS. Right now I am using the Settings.bundle, and it is putting the settings underneath the original keyboard settings. But from what I have seen from other custom keyboards, you can access additional settings by going to Settings->General->Keyboard->Keyboards->Your Keyboard Name->Additional Settings.
Right now I can get to as far as Your Keyboard Name, I have no idea what to implement to be able to make the Additional Settings.
Normally I would google this, but I do not even know what to look for to find this, and all my searches lead me to Settings.bundle.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Also I am doing this in swift, but I do not need the answer in swift if it is not known, I can figure it out myself after I get that nudge.
Never mind, I have found the answer. You need to go into the info plist of the extension, expand nsextension, expand nsextensionattributes, and inside that, set requestopenaccess to yes, that will expand the keyboards settings to allow you to set open access or not
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How can you add the Keyboards option in the settings of an app?
Like such:
I know the Siri & Search keys you must enter in your Info.plist, but I wasn't able to find how to directly add the keyboards option.
The purpose is to be able to turn on a custom keyboard from the apps settings rather than going through General > Keyboards > Add Keyboard.
If the answer is "You can not", how can you add a keyboard from within the app's own settings. There are several keyboard applications out there that have this feature, so unless it's a private deal with Apple I'm sure there is a way to do this.
Simply removing and adding the keyboard extension to an already existing project added the necessary elements to the info.plist. Not sure if this was a bug, software glitch on my end, or the alignment of the planets... all I know is that it is fixed now. Cheers!
Swift...
So I've got an existing app and I'm working on its appearance. The current task is customising the decimal pad that pops up when the user hits a textField.
I've looked around on how to make it but it always seems that you have to go into the iPhone/ipad settings and add the custom keyboard.
eg. This StackOverFlow Question
and they all seem to point to this same tutorial..
iOS 8: Creating a Custom Keyboard
My problem is that I don't want the user to have to go into settings.
So the question is....IS THIS POSSIBLE?
The following pic is what I want to use. I have made this in an XIB file through adding a target keyboard which makes the new folder with KeyboardViewController.swift , info.plist and NumPad.xib. Though i think I'm on the wrong track, can someone point me the right way please.
Also anyone know the exact dimensions this view should be.. assuming what I'm asking is in fact possible. Let me know if I'm not being clear enough!
NumPad.xib(pic)
Many many thanks,
Steve
SOLUTION: Thanks to Andrea for correcting my search keywords. It led me to this Stack Question which hopefully sends some others to the correct end of the internet that have mistakes custom keyboard with custom input views!
Sure it is possible without going into settings, but they are called custom input views.
You should look into inputViews here what Apple says about them Custom views for data input.
Basically when the user press a text field instead of loading the usual keyboard it loads an inputView that you specify, pay attention that custom keyboard term is misleading. If you google for tutorial you'll find most probably link like the ones that you found.
For a practical example check this tutorial or this, is a little bit old, but the principle are still the same
I want to make settings in my application like Apple Settings. How can I make settings in such style?
In my mind I need TableView + custom Cells with Images & Switches, but it’s very difficult way to go. I think that XCode has easier and more standart way to do that
Update I'm talking about creating custom in-app settings view, not about Settings.bundle
If you want to do it in the settings app then you need to look up about settings bundles: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/UserDefaults/Preferences/Preferences.html
If you want to have it look like the settings app but be within your app then I'd recommend InAppSettingsKit: http://www.inappsettingskit.com
I'm newbie, so i didn't know how to do ViewController like Apple Settings inside application. Now i know that, so answering on my question.
You can make settings in your application in 2 ways:
Make settings via settings.bundle, that settings will appear in Settings.app (not in your app). More at: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/UserDefaults/Preferences/Preferences.html.
Make UITableViewController and there you can customize cells to appear like native Apple Settings.
In Settings->General-Reset on an iPhone there is a list of blue text items that are , it seems to me to all intents and purposes, a series of buttons. I would like to implement such a button in my app settings. However I can't work out how this is done. In the Apple documentation there is nothing about a PreferenceSpecifier that would show this behaviour. I feel that I must be being particularly stupid about this and am missing some trick here. Would someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you
Silas
Apple can run code in Settings. You cannot. You can only declaratively change entry values in your settings.
I would like to have a subview in settings.bundle which works like the Passcode Lock section in settings -> general.
More specifically, I would like to have a subview with the functionality that I can change an access key used in my app, asking for the old one to change for a new one.
Some one have some code, clue, tutorial?
Thanks in advance.
Have you looked at the apple documentation? It explains how to do this.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/UserDefaults/Preferences/Preferences.html
Or check this tutorial http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1846575&seqNum=12
If you are wanting to make it look JUST LIKE the passcode lock screen it will be hard to do. Apple limits what a developer can do to the settings menu for their application. You could just put 4 text boxes on the screen but it won't be able to automatically go to the next box since you cannot add code to your settings bundle.