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On the ipad, the keyboard takes up about half the screen when it is horizontal. I know how to split and undock the keyboard, but that isn't the problem. Is there a way to reduce the keyboard size? If I need to download a third party keyboard app, which one would you recommend for a smaller keyboard?

Bonus Question:

I have an android phone and I can change the size of the GBoard in the settings. However, when I downloaded the GBoard for ipad, there weren't any size change settings. Is keyboard resizing just not compatible with iOS?

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iPad (6th gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 11.4.1

Posted on Jul 15, 2018 1:04 PM

When users touch a text field, a text view, or a field in a web view, the system displays a keyboard. You can configure the type of keyboard that is displayed along with several attributes of the keyboard. You also have to manage the keyboard when the editing session begins and ends. Because the keyboard could hide the portion of your view that is the focus of editing, this management might include adjusting the user interface to raise the area of focus so that is visible above the keyboard.

Keyboards and Input Methods

Whenever the user taps in an object capable of accepting text input, the object asks the system to display an appropriate keyboard. Depending on the needs of your program and the user’s preferred language, the system might display one of several different keyboards. Although your app cannot control the user’s preferred language (and thus the keyboard’s input method), it can control attributes of the keyboard that indicate its intended use, such as the configuration of any special keys and its behaviors.

Configuring the Keyboard for Text Objects

You configure the attributes of the keyboard directly through the text objects of your app. The UITextField and UITextView classes both conform to the UITextInputTraitsprotocol, which defines the properties for configuring the keyboard. Setting these properties programmatically or in the Interface Builder inspector window causes the system to display the keyboard of the designated type.

The default keyboard configuration is designed for general text input. Figure 4-1 displays the default keyboard along with several other keyboard configurations. The default keyboard displays an alphabetical keyboard initially but the user can toggle it and display numbers and punctuation as well. Most of the other keyboards offer similar features as the default keyboard but provide additional buttons that are specially suited to particular tasks. However, the phone and numerical keyboards offer a dramatically different layout that is tailored towards numerical input.

To implement the language preferences of different users, iOS also supports different input methods and keyboard layouts for different languages, some of which are shown in Figure 4-2. The input method and layout for the keyboard is determined by the user’s language preferences. Input for some of these keyboards takes place in multiple stages.

Configuring the Keyboard for Web Views

You can configure some keyboard attributes for text input elements. For example, you can include autocorrect and autocapitalize attributes in the definition of an input element to specify the keyboard’s behaviors, as shown in the following example.

You can also control which type of keyboard is displayed when a user touches a text field in a web page. To display a telephone keypad, an email keyboard, or a URL keyboard, use the tel, email, or url keywords for the type attribute on an input element, respectively. To display a numeric keyboard, set the value of the pattern attribute to '[0-9]*' or 'd*'.

These keywords and the pattern attribute are part of HTML 5 and are available in iOS. The following list shows how to display each type of keyboard, including the standard keyboard.

Text: <input type='text'></input>
Telephone: <input type='tel'></input>
URL: <input type='url'></input>
Email: <input type='email'></input>
Zip code: <input type='text' pattern='[0-9]*'></input>

Managing the Keyboard

Although many UIKit objects display the keyboard automatically in response to user interactions, your app still has some responsibilities for configuring and managing the keyboard. The following sections describe those responsibilities.

Receiving Keyboard Notifications

When the keyboard is shown or hidden, iOS sends out the following notifications to any registered observers:

Each keyboard notification includes information about the size and position of the keyboard on the screen. You can access this information from the userInfo dictionary of each notification using the UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey and UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey keys.

You should always use the information in these notifications as opposed to assuming the keyboard is a particular size or in a particular location. The size of the keyboard is not guaranteed to be the same from one input method to another and may also change between different releases of iOS. In addition, even for a single language and system release, the keyboard dimensions can vary depending on the orientation of your app. For example, Figure 4-3 shows the relative sizes of the URL keyboard in both the portrait and landscape modes. Using the information inside the keyboard notifications ensures that you always have the correct size and position information.

Note: The rectangle contained in the UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey and UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey properties of the userInfo dictionary should be used only for the size information it contains. Do not use the origin of the rectangle (which is always {0.0, 0.0}) in rectangle-intersection operations. Because the keyboard is animated into position, the actual bounding rectangle of the keyboard changes over time.

One reason to use keyboard notifications is so that you can reposition content that is obscured by the keyboard when it is visible. For information on how to handle this scenario, see Moving Content That Is Located Under the Keyboard.

There is no defined relationship between the timing of keyboard notifications and the timing of view-controller transitions.

Displaying the Keyboard

When the user taps a view, the system automatically designates that view as the first responder. When this happens to a view that contains editable text, the view initiates an editing session fo

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