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John Estropia
May 12, 2018
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Creating Keyboard Extensions
This is the talk I gave at the May 2018 Tokyo iOS Meetup
John Estropia
May 12, 2018
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Transcript
IOS KEYBOARD EXTENSIONS TOKYO IOS MEETUP
TOKYO IOS MEETUP @JOHNESTROPIA Developer since 2008 (mostly Mobile apps)
Principal Engineer @ Other hobby projects http://github.com/JohnEstropia/CoreStore
TOKYO IOS MEETUP AGENDA ▸ Creating Keyboard Extensions ▸ Pitfalls
▸ Tips ▸ App Demo
TOKYO IOS MEETUP CREATING A KEYBOARD EXTENSION
TOKYO IOS MEETUP GENERATED FILE Just a UIViewController subclass
TOKYO IOS MEETUP CREATING A KEYBOARD EXTENSION Add keyboard buttons
here as you normally would
TOKYO IOS MEETUP UIINPUTVIEWCONTROLLER Same as self.view
TOKYO IOS MEETUP CREATING A KEYBOARD EXTENSION Middle-man for the
UITextField/UITextVIew
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #1 ▸ There is no perfect
way to access the UITextInput’s instance But this is a good thing security-wise
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #1 ▸ There is no perfect
way to access the UITextInput’s complete text or its length ▸ But there is a workaround that works “most of the time”
TOKYO IOS MEETUP
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABCDEF
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABCDEF
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABC DEF So to get the complete
text we just append these two together. Right? Right??
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABC? DEF
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABC ?DEF
TOKYO IOS MEETUP ABC?D EF
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #1 ▸ There is no perfect
way to access the UITextInput’s complete text or its length ▸ Some characters such as (?) and (!) have special treatment! (bug?)
TOKYO IOS MEETUP CREATING BUTTONS
TOKYO IOS MEETUP CREATING BUTTONS
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PLAYING CLICK SOUNDS protocol
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #2 ▸ Keyboard “Full Access” is
unfortunately needed even for minor functions ▸ Play clicking sounds ▸ Read from or write to a shared NSUserDefaults ▸ Accessing the clipboard
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #2 ▸ Keyboard “Full Access” is
unfortunately needed even for minor functions Info.plist
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #2 ▸ Keyboard “Full Access” is
unfortunately needed even for minor functions
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #3 ▸ Apps can reject custom
keyboards (e.g. for security) UIApplicationDelegate
TOKYO IOS MEETUP PITFALL #4 ▸ Memory allotted to Keyboard
extensions is severely limited (~30MB) ▸ Avoid using too many nib files / image resources
TIPS
TOKYO IOS MEETUP TIP #1 ▸ Debugging a Keyboard in
a specific locale will run any app in that locale ▸ No need to change the device language!
TOKYO IOS MEETUP
TOKYO IOS MEETUP TIP #2 ▸ You are not restricted
to a single character per input
TOKYO IOS MEETUP TIP #3 ▸ The Globe button logic
can be simulated in a single line!
TOKYO IOS MEETUP TIP #3 ▸ The Globe button logic
can be simulated in a single line!
TOKYO IOS MEETUP TIP #4 ▸ You can check the
"Allow full access" status by twiddling with the clipboard
TOKYO IOS MEETUP
TOKYO IOS MEETUP When the user's clipboard is empty
APP DEMO
TOKYO IOS MEETUP WHAT I'VE LEARNED ▸ There's a ton
of untapped use-cases in third-party apps that can be improved with custom keyboards ▸ Think of them as plugins
THANKS @JohnEstropia