I would like to create my own emoticon keyboard in iOS 5. Would this replace the now standard emoji keyboard? In my search for answers, i havent found much on how to create/install the keyboard. From my understanding the process would be along these lines:
-create array or something of the sort (build of a keyboard template file?)
- have an app that installs this keyboard under international keyboards
- then just enable the keyboard to be available in all apps.
thanks, in advance for any help. any resources would be greatly appreciated as well
While searching for the same thing (if there were any way to create a custom international keyboard) I found these links which say:
You can't create your own keyboards but only enable keyboards created by Apple.
If you create an app to enable other keyboards it will probably get rejected.
Create custom international keyboard for iPhone
Making An Emoji Enabeling App
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This is a niche problem, but making a reference if it helps anyone!
If you have a keyboard with built in shortcut keys and you want to reprogram them, what do you do? I had a kinesis freestyle 2 keyboard (mac and PC versions) that had two rows of built in shortcut keys mapped to a mac, but I wanted to use it on a PC (no way to return for PC dedicated version and printed keys have different shortcuts).
If you go to kinesis' website - a bit user hostile customer service in my experience - they will tell you there is no way to remap the existing buttons... and then they'll happily link you to buying a new $200 keyboard, their "Pro" model, if you want remappable buttons.
Of course there is an easy fix. While there are multiple approaches, I turned to a kind soul with a free utility they've released to make the world a bit better. The utility for Windows is called "SharpKeys" by RandyRants.com and on a Mac, you have a system setting you can change. Here is a good write up on that by Matt Klein at "howtogeek"
After remapping the control and command keys and purposefully assigning the web back and forward buttons, I then had a useful keyboard... no thanks to Kinesis and their upsell tactic leaving their customers (who paid a premium for their ergonomic keyboard) in the dark with an easy solution in reach..
I have been using intellij on mac for the last 4 years, now using windows temporarily, and expect to return to mac soon.
I bought a magic keyboard for my windows machine so I wouldnt have to (re)learn 2 sets of keyboard shortcuts, and i switched intellij layout to mac default, but this does not work as I expected. The mac keyboard is pretending to be a windows keyboard rather than just being a mac keyboard.
Is there a simple way to tell the magic keyboard to just be a mac keyboard? I want all keyboard shortcuts to be exactly the same.
Ive googled this for a bit but found nothing helpful.
I looked into microsoft keyboard layout creator, but it appears the windows key will always be a windows key, and windows will never see a command or option key. This may be a viable solution, but looks like a time suck, and I'd like to know if anybody has suggestions before I go down this route any further.
Thanks for your help
Try making Windows key to act as Meta:
Press Help | Edit Custom Properties... (if a dialog appears, press "Create")
"idea.properties" file will open. Add keymap.windows.as.meta=true to a new line
Restart IDE
On my Nexus 7 input keyboard I have an option to switch languages (Bulgarian, Russian and English).
I want to create such input on windows phone application, but was not able to find a way to do that?
I am not going to deploy the application on the store, just wanted to enabled this on the emulator.
Users can set this for themselves in the keyboard settings. You can't interact with the keyboard as a developer aside from setting it's inputscope (eg. web address, e-mail, numbers).
Currently I have many different XCode projects that are each the same custom ios8 keyboard and the only difference between them is that they each are a different color. The question that I have is how would I combine these keyboards into a single container app that would allow you to switch keyboard colors through the app?
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
Use NSUserdefaults, app groups and allow full access.
Check:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25784582/840742
Note, your app extension and container app must be in same app group (capabilities tab of target settings page in Xcode).
Is there a way to reliably check programmatically if the keyboard attached to a computer is a Mac keyboard with Command (⌘) and option keys, or a PC keyboard with Windows, Alt, and Menu keys? For simplicity's sake assume that there is only one keyboard attached to the computer. An operating system independent solution would be best if there is one, but if you have to assume an OS, assume Windows 7.
Enumerate the attached USB devices and look for a keyboard. If you find one, and it's got a vendor id of 0x05AC (Apple Inc), then it's definitely an Apple keyboard. If the vendor is something else, or if you don't find any USB keyboards (e.g, the keyboard is probably hooked up via PS2), then it's probably not an Apple keyboard.