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This looks great! The lack of cursor movement keys is probably the biggest problem with text editing on the iPad. Textastic on the iPad also has a great idea:
by vilya 14y ago
This looks great! The lack of cursor movement keys is probably the biggest problem with text editing on the iPad.
Textastic on the iPad also has a great idea: they've implemented (not sure how) an extended keyboard, with an extra row of 5-way keys. Tap them and they give you the character in the middle of the key, touch and swipe towards one of the four corners and you get the character on that corner instead. It's amazing how much quicker this makes editing. The one thing it's missing is cursor movement keys (they have Home and End, but nothing finer grained), so I'd love to see it combined with features like those in the video.
- tedmiston 14y agoFrom a development perspective, the keyboard is just another view. You can subclass it, or if that's been made unneccesarily difficult, you can just create your own custom keyboard view from scratch. Several apps in the App Store already take this approach.
- britta 14y agoIf you have a jailbroken iPad, you can get a five-row keyboard in any app with "iKeyWi HD for iPad", and it includes cursor keys: http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak-applications-tweaks/69683-ikeywi-hd-ipad-new-5-row-keyboard-tweak.html http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak-applications-tweaks/6968... SwipeShiftCaret is also a nice little tweak for typing better on iOS - it lets you swipe on the screen (although not on the keyboard) to move the cursor one character at a time: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/02/10/swipeshiftcaret/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/02/10/swipeshiftcaret/
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoI'm not sure if it was supported before iOS 5, but there is an API which you can use to add a subview above the keyboard view. It would be used for adding next/previous/done buttons to help navigate forms, for example. What Textastic does appears to be a more innovative or unique example.