iOS - UIButton become first responder to open keyboard

Question

I need to open keyboard on button click for UIButton (not using/for UITextField). I have tried to create custom button by overriding variable canBecomeFirstResponder but it's not working.

Is there any other way to do so?

Note: I want to set UIPIckerView as an input view of UIButton in key board frame.

Here is my code.

class RespondingButton: UIButton {


    override var canBecomeFirstResponder: Bool {
        return true
    }


    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        commonInit()
    }


    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        commonInit()
    }


    private func commonInit() {
        // common init
    }



}

In my view controller, I connected button action.

class TestViewController: UIViewController {

   @IBAction func testBecomeFirstResponder(button: RespondingButton){
      button.becomeFirstResponder()  // Not working.
   } 
}

Do you want to use a keyboard to change data shown by UIPicker? — Phyber, Aug 03 '17 at 18:06
@Phyber You may know, we can set UIPickerView as an inputView for UITextField, just similar way, I need to do it with UIButton — Krunal, Aug 03 '17 at 18:07
Possible duplicate of [UIBUTTON and picker view](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6429900/uibutton-and-picker-view) — dan, Aug 03 '17 at 18:08
Maybe this is weired, but what is about a hidden textfield and set this to first responder - just if nothing else is working for you. — Retterdesdialogs, Aug 03 '17 at 18:23
@Retterdesdialogs, I have this choice in my mind but this would be last choice for me to get it work. — Krunal, Aug 03 '17 at 18:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 06 '18 at 15:36

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Add conformance to UIKeyInput like this. It should work.

class RespondingButton: UIButton, UIKeyInput {

    override var canBecomeFirstResponder: Bool {
        return true
    }

    var hasText: Bool = true
    func insertText(_ text: String) {}
    func deleteBackward() {}
}

edited Jun 06 '18 at 15:36

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Partially means? – Mohammad Sadiq Aug 03 '17 at 18:30

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '17 at 18:30

Here is what I would do.

Create transparent textField 1x1px, lets say it is myTextField.
Then add your desired button. In the button action make the myTextField.becomeFirstResponder().

Create view:

let pvBackground: UIView = {
        let v = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 10, height: 10))
        v.backgroundColor = .white
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        return v
}()

In viewDidLoad:

pvBackground.addSubview(yourPickerView)//add the picker into the pvBackground
myTextField.inputView = pvBackground

I added the pickerView into the another view to be able to customize it more.

iOS - UIButton become first responder to open keyboard

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