I need to recreate custom keyboard with four levels: lowercase, uppercase, special characters and special characters when shift is pressed. I do not want to create plist file where will be placed all characters for each level. I am looking for the solution to get it using native framework.
What is the way to get characters set for each level?
Characters set should depend on language. Lets say German layout is different to UK layout.
Answer to the “Why?” question: For security reason as written in iOS Security guid at p.20 it is better to present custom keyboard to the users. As my text field have functionality hide/show password my UITextView can be in the mode not secure.
Once enabled, the extension will be used for any text field except the
passcode input and any secure text view.
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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.
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).
When using the backspace symbol in an app, I want to use the same one iOS (7) uses in its keyboards:
But instead, when using System Font in Xcode, it shows as a different design:
Is there another character that represents the one used by iOS, should I switch to a specific other font, is there a System Icon that should be used for this, or something else?
It's quite likely that the system keyboard uses an icon, not any specific Unicode character. Just like the shift keys and some other non-character keys.
I'm currently developing an iOS app that at a very high level allows a user to enter text into a text box that will get sent to a server for incorporation into a dynamically generated PDF. The server uses Node.js & PDFKit.
We are localising the app for pretty much every language supported by iOS. The text the user enters is UTF-8 encoded when sent to the server. The problem I face is knowing which font (or fonts) to use server side to ensure the characters show up correctly in the server side generated PDF.
In the iOS client app there is a single UILabel showing a preview of the text a user has entered into a UITextField. The UILabel showing the preview has a single custom font applied that only has support for Greek & Latin characters. Interestingly when a mixture of characters are entered from different alphabets (possible if the user has multiple keyboards) latin, cyrillic, etc. they display correctly in the UILabel despite the fact the custom font does not support them:
I guess there is some kind of "font fallback" going on, however as the client app is being localised to support many languages this behaviour is desirable.
My question is how can I know server side which fonts are being used, and the range of characters they cover in the preview UILabel? Somehow I need to replicate this behaviour server side so that the text in the generated PDF approximately matches the client preview.
Alternatively is it possible to determine server side what fonts I should use for a given character?
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.!!!