Re: iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

2016-04-06 Thread Luther Baker
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 m

Re: iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

2016-04-06 Thread Igor Ranieri Elland
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 h

Re: iOS Hardware Keyboard Detection

2016-04-06 Thread Luther Baker
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 b