Questions tagged [custom-keyboard]

Relating to a custom keyboard created to override the default onscreen keyboard in a user interface. Also see [ios-app-extension] for iOS Custom Keyboard Extensions.

Use this tag for questions referring to overriding the default keyboard in a user interface. Also see for iOS Custom Keyboard Extensions.

Apple documentation: App Extension Programming Guide

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How to install a font system wide in iOS

I have created a custom keyboard plugin to support the Amharic character set (an Ethiopian dialect). The issue I'm having is that iOS doesn't have any Amharic support built in, this means that in other apps that use my keyboard, the characters…
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Clipboard copy/paste from custom keyboard

I'm working hard on finding a solution on copy/paste images on input field of "other system apps" In particular, I've created my own custom keyboard, within which I can press the emoji button. At this point, a panel is shown and a set of images…
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How to close/hide custom keyboard Android

I've try to close my custom keyboard after click item in gridview.I'm trying to do it in BaseAdapter class. context is come from InputMethodService. So far I've tried below: FrameLayout scroll = (FrameLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.keyboard,…
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Failed to inherit CoreMedia permissions from 1297: (null)

When this error occurs? I'm trying to create custom keyboard with image on it and getting this error while loading the image.
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How can I set image in textDocumentProxy with custom keyboard extension iOS 8?

How can we set an image behalf of the text? Following code is to display text in the input view: [self.textDocumentProxy insertText:[key currentTitle]]; My code of paste board to display the image : NSData *imgData =…
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How to get host app screen geometry for iOS 8 custom keyboard inside iPhone app running on iPad?

My Custom keyboard has presets for each screen resolution of all Apple devices. So I have iphone, iphon5, iphone6, iphone6plus and ipad presets. But in case user runs iPhone app (like instagram) on iPad, I need to load iphone keyboard preset and use…
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How to make Predictive text in custom keyboard in iOS 8

I am developing a custom keyboard and I want to add predictive text in it Please help me with these questions... How can I make predictive text using UILexicon? Do I need a lexical database to make predictive text or work with UILexicon ? Does…
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How to detect if ios8 custom keyboard extension is running in not iphone 6 optimized app?

In the app that not optimized for iphone 6 in standard display mode keyboard and status bar shows zoomed. This causes my manually layouted custom keyboard extension to show streched. How can I detect this zooming to fix layout?
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How can I add button icons to custom keyboard iOS 8?

I am creating custom keyboard for ios 8. Creating keyboard buttons like this UIButton *aBtn = [ UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom ]; [aBtn setFrame:CGRectMake(x, 30, btnWidth, btnHeight)]; [aBtn setImage:[UIImage…
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Custom keyboard in iOS 8 landscape portrait mode

I want to make a custom keyboard in iOS 8. I want to change the size of it when the phone rotates to landscape mode. -(void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration { …
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IOS 8 App Group access container app file in Keyboard extension

I want to access container app file in my custom keyboard extension through App Group feature.For That purpose I have create Group ID on my Apple portal and also added it in my both targets(Keyboard and app) I have successfully access data by…
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Detect if Custom Keyboard has been installed

I've read through the documentation and can't seem to find any method of how can I detect if a custom keyboard has been installed in settings>general>keyboards? Does anyone know of any?
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UILexicon in Objective-C

How do you use UILexicon in Objective-C? I find the documentation Apple provides is extremely unhelpful. What does it do? Does it return a dictionary or proper spellings of words? Or do I provide a word like "hellllo" and it matches it with the…
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Error "Connection to plugin interrupted/invalidated while in use" when switching to custom keyboard in swift application

I have been so frustrated for so long with this problem. My code was working just fine and then I took a break from the program for winter break. When I came back to it, whenever I tried to switch from the default keyboard to my custom keyboard, I…
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How to addTarget (handleInputModeList) into SwiftUI Button

I've been trying to make a custom keyboard within SwiftUI. The instructions about creating a custom keyboard, primarily written in UIKit causing some struggles with my SwiftUI code in configuration to fundamental buttons (Delete, Space and…