how to make a keyboard in other language in iOS

Question

I want to create a khmer keyboard which is different from iPhone keyboard. How can I do that ?

Answer 1

Starting from iOS 4, UITextField and UITextView have a property called inputView. It should be a view able to receive the taps and send to the UIViewController that holds your text field. So, can create a UIViewController with delegate methods, and set it's view as the inputView of your UITextField or UITextView. So, assuming that MyCustomKeyboard is the UIViewController that is your keyboard, including the view and the delegate methods, in your viewDidLoad of your view controller, you should put:

MyCustomKeyboard *customKeyboard = [[MyCustomKeyboard alloc] init];
customKeyboard.delegate = self;
myTextField.inputView = customKeyboard.view;

And in your view controller you handle the delegate methods of your MyCustomKeyboard class.

If you want a tutorial, there is a good one in Ray Wenderlich website, you should do something similar to the iPhone.

Answer 2

make a customize keyboard. take a UIView add UIButton and add what you want to all in this view.

Answer 3

I don't think it can be done just for one app, two options:

• The user has to change to the correct language.

Since that is not what you want, there is option 2:

• Implement your own keyboard (=huge amount of work)

Answer 4

Unfortunately, you cannot control the language of the keyboard. The user chooses which keyboards they would like available via the settings application and can toggle between them using the globe icon on the keyboard. When the keyboard is opened it will open to the most recently used keyboard.