Is there a way for an app to have a custom keyboard reflect the currently selected font?
For instance: You are a crazy/drunk person, and want to type up a document using the font Comic Sans. Upon selecting the font you want to use, the letters on the keyboard appear in that font.
Can this be done?
Would it require a custom keyboard for each available font in the app?
In my opinion, you have to create a one custom keyboard mimicking the default keyboard. Since you will have access to the keys of your custom keyboard you can change the font for the keys.
So you would need only one custom keyboard and a way to change the font for the keys in the keyboard.
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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/
I am making app with default spanish language. In email form I want show english keyboard. Is it possible to do it?
Unfortunately, you cannot control the language of the keyboard. The user chooses which keyboards they would like available via the settings application and can toggle between them using the globe icon on the keyboard. When the keyboard is opened it will open to the most recently used keyboard.check this like http://iphone.appstorm.net/how-to/change-your-keyboard-or-display-language-in-ios/
You can make a customize keyboard. take a UIView add UIButton and add what you want to all in this view.
I am wanting to make iOS custom keyboard to change UITextfield font , colour & Text.
Not sure if there is any standard method/code.
I have got some hint from here
Can somebody suggest a better method to achieve all these?
Note: Basically i want it to appear like the way it appears in tools.
say if I am choosing font from font list then all fonts must have font style as per their name, and colour option must be square button of colour itself. etc.
Thanks
see the below links about custom keyboards
http://mayfleet.com/2012/12/14/ios-custom-keyboard/
http://blog.carbonfive.com/2012/03/12/customizing-the-ios-keyboard/
I want to create a Alphabet (Character) tracing and learning app.Which will be multilingual app.The font for different language will be attached in app resource folder. First user select language and fond. According to language selection the keyboard will be shown.Then user enter a character and trace. Is it possible to show keyboard according to language selection.Or I have to create custom keyboard.Please suggest me.
You have no control over which keyboard gets shown, unless you create a custom one, unfortunately. If you had control, you might request to show a keyboard that the user has not enabled in their settings and this would cause a problem. The only keyboards you can request to open are the ones listed in UIKeyboardType
Does any one know how to Create custom keyboard in iphone? Pls give me any samples for custom keyboard
Hi you need to try following link. They have explained very well and step by step that how to create Custom Keyboard. http://www.appdesignvault.com/ios-8-custom-keyboard-extension/
But while creating Custom Keyboard there are some limitations you must know:
A Custom Keyboard cannot be used to type into certain text input objects. These include the secure text input objects (any object that has its secureText property set to YES) and phone pad objects (any object that has a keyboard type trait of UIKeyboardTypePhonePad or UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad). When the user types in any of these text input objects, the system temporarily replaces your custom keyboard with the system keyboard, and on typing in a non-secure or non-phone pad object, your keyboard resumes.
Input dictation isn’t possible for a custom keyboard since, like all extensions in iOS 8, it has no access to the device microphone.
Selecting text is also not possible. Text selection is under the control of the app that is using the keyboard.
Closely related to the above point, editing menu options i.e. Cut, Copy, Paste are inaccessible. If an app provides an editing menu interface, the keyboard has no access to it.
App developers can reject the use of custom keyboards in their app. This can especially be done in apps that are sensitive to security such as banking apps.
You cannot display key artwork above the top edge of a custom keyboard’s primary view the same way Apple does when you tap and hold a key in the top view.
and very Important you must follow the Apple Extensions guide
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014214-CH16-SW1
Enjoy. Happy coding.!!!