I need to be able to force a different international keyboard, without the user manually having to go into the Settings application and enable that keyboard.
For example, the user only has English (AU) enabled, and I want to be able to bring up a keyboard for inputting Chinese without them having to enable the keyboard, and switch to that manually.
[[UIKeyboardImpl sharedInstance] setInputMode:#"emoji"];
Which, of course, this is undocumented.
Or change ~/Library/Prefereces/.GlobalPreferences.plist and ~/Library/Prefereces/com.apple.preferences.plist (the method many apps used to enable Emoji).
There's no documented way to force enable a keyboard. Better tell the users to enable it themselves.
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I am building keyboard app, and I am wondering if there is a possibility to open my custom keyboard when user pressing on textField within my app. Keyboard is built using storyboard.
I know that I can force textField to open number Pad, Phone pad and other Apple's keyboard options but can I open my own keyboard without going to settings and adding my 3rd party keyboard.
Thanks in advance.
No, it's not possible, You have to add keyboard once from settings and then automatically your keyboard will pop up.
if you really want your own keyboard without adding settings then you need to develop your own custom inputView.
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Note: Apple will not allow you to forcefully active your own keyboard at anycast because of its policy violation.
First off - I am a programmer, but I am not an iOS programmer.
Is there a method, besides "secureTextEntry=YES" to force an input field to use the system keyboard?
I'm investigating an uncomfortable behavior in 1Password (I do not work for AgileBits) where all third-party keyboards are disabled app-wide. They have an option to re-enable them, however it's buried in the advanced options and is in no way evident to a user. If you have removed the system keyboards in lieu of a third-party keyboard, you just get an app with no keyboards at all, or only emoji (if installed).
If there's a way to designate a field as requiring the system keyboard, without it being treated as a password, I haven't been able to find it in the iOS documentation… but their doc site isn't the easiest to navigate or search.
UITextField conforms to the UITextInputTraits protocol. This protocol has a keyboardType which you can set as one of the values from the UIKeyboardType enum (found here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITextInputTraits_Protocol/index.html#//apple_ref/c/tdef/UIKeyboardType ). You can change this keyboardType in addition to choosing to hide the characters (via secureTextEntry).
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 my app to have an only-emoji keyboard. Is this possible to do? Like instead of the english version coming up, it would be emojis. Is it possible to do this without enabling emojis via system preferences? Thanks!
No, the Emoji keyboard has to be activated by the user in the Settings app and there is no way to change this from a 3rd party app.
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