Keyboard TextField Manager

Often while developing an app, We ran into an issues where the iPhone UIKeyboard slide up and cover the UITextField/UITextView.

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Installation

Cocoapod

IQKeyboardManager is available through CocoaPods, to install it simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'IQKeyboardManager', '~>3.0.0'

Framework:-

Link your project against KeyboardManager.framework found in "IQKeyboardManager Framework" directory. Drag and drop the resource bundle IQKeyboardManager.bundle found in same directory. add -ObjC flag in other linker flag. That's it. No need to write any single line of code.

Source Code:-

Just drag and drop IQKeyBoardManager directory from demo project to your project. That's it. No need to write any single line of code. It will enable automatically.

Properties and functions usage:-

1. +sharedManager Returns the default singleton instance.

2. enable Use this to enable/disable managing distance between keyboard & textField/textView).

3. keyboardDistanceFromTextField Set Distance between keyboard & textField. Can't be less than zero. Default is 10.

4. enableAutoToolbar Enable autoToolbar behaviour. If It is set to NO. You have to manually create UIToolbar for keyboard. Default is YES.

5. canAdjustTextView Giving permission to modify TextView's frame. Adjust textView's frame when it is too big in height. Default is NO.

6. shouldResignOnTouchOutside Resign textField if touched outside of UITextField/UITextView.

7. shouldShowTextFieldPlaceholder If YES, then it add the textField's placeholder text on IQToolbar. Default is YES.

8. shouldPlayInputClicks If YES, then it plays inputClick sound on next/previous/done click. Default is NO.

9. toolbarUsesCurrentWindowTintColor If YES, then uses textField's tintColor property for IQToolbar, otherwise tintColor is black. Default is NO.

10. toolbarManageStyle Setting toolbar behaviour to IQAutoToolbarBySubviews to manage previous/next according to UITextField's hierarchy in it's SuperView. Set it to IQAutoToolbarByTag to manage previous/next according to UITextField's tag property in increasing order. Default is IQAutoToolbarBySubviews.

11. -resignFirstResponder Resigns currently first responder field.

Feature:-

1. Support Device Orientation.

2. Enable/Disable Keyboard Manager when needed with enable boolean.

3. Easiest integration.

4. AutoHandle UIToolbar as a accessoryInputView of textField/textView with enableAutoToolbar boolean.

5. AutoHandle UIToolbar can be manged by superview's hierarchy or can be managed by tag property of textField/textView using toolbarManageBehaviour enum.

6. UIView Category for easily adding Next/Previous and Done button as Keyboard UIToolBar, even automatic with enableAutoToolbar boolean.

7. Enable/Disable Next/Previous buttons with Category methods, even automatic with enableAutoToolbar boolean.

8. Set keyboard distance from textFields using keyboardDistanceFromTextField.

9. Resign keyboard on touching outside using shouldResignOnTouchOutside.

10. Manage UITextView's frame when it's hight is too large to fit on screen with canAdjustTextView boolean.

11. Can manage UITextField/UITextView inside UITableView/UIScrollView.

12. Can play input sound on Next/Previous/Done click.

LICENSE

Distributed under the MIT License.

Contributions

Any contribution is more than welcome! You can contribute through pull requests and issues on GitHub.

Author

If you wish to contact me, email at: hack.iftekhar@gmail.com