This is the first time i am handling the emoji keyboard for my application.
I am using custom font to display the text and the emoji characters. I want to know the ios font which support both the text and the emoji characters to display in my app.
Thanks in advance.
You don't need to use a special font to support emoji. Just use whatever font you use to display your "normal" characters and iOS will automatically switch to the AppleColorEmoji font to display any "emoji" characters.
If you want more info about what font to use, http://iosfonts.com/ is a great site.
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I need to display some text that is returned from a web service. The text itself is returned in UTF-8. I need to display the text onscreen in a font that is capable of rendering the text (which could be arabic, japanese, french, hindi, whatever).
At run time, how do I determine which font to use ?
Is there a single font in iOS that can be used for this situation ?
Yes the system font itself can display all those languages. You also can use the Helvetica Neue, works perfectly.
I do it too to display arabic, japanese, korean etc.
You can read this documentation about unicode.
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.
The goal is to be able to insert images with text when sharing text into an SMS Message from the App as well as in e-mails. Like it is in the picture below. When I try to share images with the UIActivityViewController the images appear on the next line and not next to the text. Is it possible to embed images in text and e-mail like the built in Emoji text?
The contents of text messages are just that, text (that is, a sequence of Unicode code points.) The emoji images you see in the screenshot come from a system font installed on all iOS devices, and are represented in the text as unicode code points, just like the other regular letters in the same message.
If you want to embed custom images into text fields in your app, you can create a custom font that includes the desired graphics (for some code points in the Unicode private use area,) include the font in your app as an asset, configure your text fields to use that font, and then provide some UI for the user to type those code points in.
But remember that this will only work on devices that have your custom font installed, and in apps that choose to use that custom font to display the text — so essentially only in your own app. So for example if you'd send the text in an email or iMessage/SMS to another device, your custom graphics would not work unless a) the receiving device has your custom font installed system-wide, and b) the app displaying the text resolves the Unicode private use area code points you chose to use for your images to this custom font of yours.
If you only want to embed images into text fields within your own app, on iOS 7 and later you can use the text attachments feature that TextKit supports.
I have a textbox in my project. I set the font to an arabic font and when i run my project and type something in that text box it shows in English. Is there any way to display it in Arabic?
well i haven't worked a lot in VB6.0, you may use the Richtextbox control.
I'm currently working on an app which displays some funky characters. They are proper unicode characters There is no system font that contains these glyphs on iOS, so I made a custom font that contains only these glyphs.
Now, I don't want to replace the system font with my custom font, but I want to have iOS load any missing glyphs from my custom font. Can iOS fallback to custom fonts?
Hopefully, you've gotten a reply by now, but the only way this is possible by using a custom font, is to have customise a "normal" fonts non-letter characters by replacing characters like U+2615 (Hot beverage) with your custom glyphs. Thus, you can use your custom font for all your UI, but you would need different characters than you use now to display your custom glyphs