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Vik
Vik

Reputation: 9309

ios swift 3 building a bottom tab bar for custom keyboard

I am very new to swift 3 and ios development in general. I got the basic custom keyboard showing up on my device. however, the very first step is to now build a footer area with following things:

a button (to switch keyboard), a tab showing some custom stuff i am aiming for (consider blank tab for now) and another tab to show a regular keyboard.

Questions:

  1. Do i have to build the regular keybaord from scratch ?
  2. how to build this footer bar itself?

I was seeing creating a simple button is like hell 10 lines of code 

func createButton(){       
    button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 44, height: 44))
    button.setTitle("Get Quote", for: .normal)
    button.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
    button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ratingButtonTapped), for: .touchUpInside)
    view.addSubview(button)
    button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints =  false;
    button.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor, multiplier: 0.6).isActive = true
}

i will be dead creating the whole footer bar and the regular keyboard. please advise

Upvotes: 0

Views: 528

Answers (1)

Mohamad Bachir Sidani
Mohamad Bachir Sidani

Reputation: 2099

Question 1: Yes, you have to since apple doesnt provide the native keyboard to use. However there are plenty Custom keybpard open source you can built on top them. This is one of them I used in the past : https://github.com/archagon/tasty-imitation-keyboard

Question 2: Footer bar is a normal UIView, just like you build a UIView in a normal application

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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