I hear ya.
Keyboards, keystrokes and text management have always been so opaque on
iOS. I think that might make it easier for devs to get up and running but
if we're to write world class apps to compete with the desktop at all, I
think we're going to need better text handling abstractions.
Just
I’ve been filing radars and complaining about this for almost 3 years now
(since iOS7). So far the only way to detect if a hardware keyboard is present
is through private APIs (and those only if a text view on text field is
currently the first responder).
If anyone has a good solution, I’d be
If not there already, it seems like this type of functionality needs to be
on the critical path ... or someone's radar?
How does one take advantage of the screen if there is no authoritative way
to determine if the keyboard is covering half of it? Especially since the
pro's case now comes with a
I'm building an app for the iPad 2 and iPad Pro and need to present a modal
differently, depending on whether or not there is a hardware keyboard
attached.
The keyboard notifications keep giving me the rect for the screen keyboard,
whether or not it appears.
Thanks,
Luther
