Is it possible to take advantage of the international keyboard feature for the iPhone and create a custom keyboard that can be used over the entire phone not just within a particular app?
Similar to the Emoji keyboard but I'm under the impression that's somehow native to iOS and is just disabled by default?
I've looked at a lot of the questions on here regarding this, I'd just like to get a definitive answer.
As per Apple's submission guidelines:
2.5 Apps that use non-public APIs will be rejected
2.6 Apps that read or write data outside its designated container area will be rejected
There are no public APIs to add an additional keyboard.
The files that store keyboard data are definitely stored outside of your app's container.
In short: There is no way to implement a custom global keyboard on a non-jailbroken iOS device at this point in time.
As of iOS 8 you can now create custom keyboard extensions: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
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this App adds an international keyboard to iOS (a keyboard you will see in your iOS general settings)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emoji-free!/id332509635?mt=8
how did they manage to do it?
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EDIT: i'm sorry for not searching it before, this should be the answer
Making An Emoji Enabeling App
The best way i found is to add shortcuts.
Go in the keyboard setting and paste the symbols you copied from a document or safari and give it a shortcut. For exemple: for √ i used ss. So i just double the first letter of the thing. Or for an exponent like ², i just use 22.
It takes a while to setup but its an easy way instead of switching between the symbol app and do a copy and paste every time. And for greek symbols, i just installed the greek keyboard.
Have fun.
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We have an app, deployed to more than milion users.
Some of them report that they don't see chinese or russian keyboard when they try to select a language to type (but they do see other languages).
They say it happens only on our app.
Since I'm not familiar with an API to set what languages the user see in his keyboard, I really don't know what to do here.
The issue is not reproduced on our devices..
Some notes:
1. The language is on the languages list on the user settings.
2. The users say it happens only on our app.
3. It happens to a small friction of users (not all of them).
4) It's being solved after reinstall the app.
Any direction?
There is an option in my app that will enable the user to change the language of the app which can be different from the system's language.
The app has to be localised according to that language instead of the device's language.
I have found couple of solutions like this one but I couldn't find a solution that will work for storyboards an base localisation.
How to achieve this?
I would like to know if it is possible to launch an app on iOS that is currently in the back group using three taps for example ? Think of it as a short cut on a desktop app.
Thanks
No!
That is not possible. There is no way to open one specific app on some combination of touches.
You can however open other apps from your app using url schemes, but something like that is not supported across the entire OS and of course not supported on the springboard. (see the apple docs)
I'm fairly new to iOS development and I am porting an Android app to iOS 7. The Android app provides a screen that allows the user to change a number of non persistent settings. Because these are not saved, it doesn't seem appropriate to me to expose them, on iOS, as preferences via a settings bundle and the built-in Settings app. So I'm looking at an in-app settings screen, which I understand is allowed - but perhaps not encouraged - by Apple.
Some questions:
Am I correct that an in-App approach is allowed by Apple? Most example code seems to use settings bundles. Am I going to have problems when the app is submitted to the App Store?
I can put the settings UI in a simple UITableViewController, but is there an approved way to expose this to the user? XCode 5 doesn't provide a settings identifier (and icon) for toolbar buttons, and the "Info" identifier (letter i inside a circle) seems to have been dropped too. Should I use a custom icon? Are there any de facto standards?
I haven't seen this kind of UI element before on iOS but my exposure to the platform as a user is limited.
There is nothing wrong with doing an in-app preference (table)view. You won't be rejected for that (this point seems to be way too much exagerated outside the iOS community). There are guidelines that you can follow: iOS Human Interface Guidelines... or not. As long as you don't use private APIs (assuming you know how to access them anyway), you're fine! So you can use a custom icon, the "i" button, or any UI element that convey the reasonable meaning of providing access to more info/preference.
In your code, you can use the class NSUserDefaults (with the standardUserDefaults) to store your preferences.
Many apps have in-app settings. It's fine. Apple even states that it is fine. Just don't have both.
Use a custom icon. Many apps seem to use an icon that looks like a gear.
I am a rookie iOS developer trying to figure out this. Pardon me if I am asking basic question.
I need to set an unique identifier in the device (iphone or ipad) that can be read by the app (can be browser app or native app). Is this feasible ?
Reason being: the device needs to be uniquely identified. The user might be able to use the installed app or through browser as well.
Thx.
You can create a HTML element containing any amount of content and hide it with CSS. Sometimes I use an 'input' element just for that and read it with javascript. I think you use data-uri also.