Keyboards and Input

A collection of methods that defines features associated with keyboard input to a text object.

An object that manages bar button items displayed in the shortcuts bar above the keyboard on iPad.

An interaction that provides text selection gestures and UI to custom text views.

An interface that an object implements to keep informed of text interaction events.

Modes that determine the selection behaviors that a text interaction provides.

A set of methods you implement to interact with the text input system and enable features such as autocorrection and multistage text input in documents.

An intermediary between a document and the text input system.

A tokenizer, which is an object that allows the text input system to evaluate text units of different granularities.

A set of methods a subclass of UIResponder uses to implement simple text entry.

The current text-input mode.

A base implementation of the UITextInputTokenizer protocol.

An object that represents the textual interpretation of a spoken phrase as dictated by a user.

An object that displays and manages custom input for a view when that view becomes the first responder.

The primary view controller for a custom keyboard app extension.

A read-only array of term pairs, each in a lexicon entry object, for use by a custom keyboard.

A read-only term pair, available within a lexicon object, for use by a custom keyboard.

An object that provides textual context to a custom keyboard.

Detect when the user presses and releases keys on a physical keyboard.

An object that provides information about the state of a keyboard key.

A set of HID usage codes that identify the keys of a USB keyboard.

Display text, manage fonts, and check spelling.

Manage text storage, and coordinate the layout of text.