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.!!!
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How to read text from custom keyboard from third party apps like Skype, whats up and so on?
Step1: I have to create custom keyboard in swift ios
Step2: Enable and add custom keyboard in ios device.
Step3: User will open skype and chat using custom keyboard .
Step 4: I need to read text or detect text or get text , user typed text from third party apps like skype , whats up, message and so on.
Eg: User open skype and chat using custom keyboard like "Hello" . I wants to read text or get text or detect text as Hello using ios swift.
If you have created your own custom keyboard, then you are the one who implemented creating the text from the keyboard -> it should be super easy to record the user input (since you are generating it). E.g., if you generate a character using:
self.textDocumentProxy.insertText(characterString)
Then just at the same moment track that character:
self.textGeneratedInThisSession = self.textGeneratedInThisSession + characterString
Assuming there is textGeneratedInThisSession variable into which you are appending the text.
Moreover, at any moment you can just examine the content of self.textDocumentProxy which gives you the power to find out even the content of the document proxy that was generated by other keyboards, e.g.:
let contentDescription = textDocumentProxy.description
Read more in UITextDocumentProxy documentation.
However, you should know that this is something Apple is very sensitive about. Recording the text and leaking it anywhere might very easily end in rejection of the custom keyboard.
Is it possible to remove letter upper from keyboard ?
Not if its the standard UIKeyboard. You can roll your own keyboard that does not support uppercase. Alternatively, for an easier solution you can make all text lowercase when entered via a bit of code.
You can create your Custom Keyboard with iOS8 App Extension. Try this tutorial :
http://www.appcoda.com/custom-keyboard-tutorial/
Also check at developer.apple.com :
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
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.
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/
There’s a new Fleksy keyboard release for iOS 8 featuring a keyboard extension. The color of the keyboard extension can be changed from the containing Flexy.app without turning on the RequestsOpenAccess mode (or “Allow Full Access” in the UI). How is that possible when the containing app and the extension share no container?
(Now that I think about it, this is a huge security question, too. If the containing app can communicate with the keyboard extension, maybe it can also read your keystrokes? I’m not saying that Fleksy does it, just that it should be impossible in principle, unless the extension is granted full access.)
I see. The app doesn’t communicate with the keyboard through the shared container, it communicates through the sample textfield in the app. When user taps to change the color theme, the app inserts a special string into the textfield, the keyboard notices the string, parses the theme name and stores the setting in its own user defaults.
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