Adding a UIKeyboard when a text field is clicked

Question

I need to popup a keyboard when the user hits on a UITextField. I understand that this is done automatically. But the Keyboard i require should have the .com , @ signs in it. Like in the Facebook application for iOS.

How can i add this Keyboard ? And what is it called ?

Answer 1

Your answer can be found here: Programmatically change UITextField Keyboard type

To summarise...

You can change the keyboard type by doing the following:

[textField setKeyboardType:(TYPE)];

Replacing (TYPE) with one of the following:

UIKeyboardTypeDefault,                // Default type for the current input method.
UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable,           // Displays a keyboard which can enter ASCII characters, non-ASCII keyboards remain active
UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation,  // Numbers and assorted punctuation.
UIKeyboardTypeURL,                    // A type optimized for URL entry (shows . / .com prominently).
UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad,              // A number pad (0-9). Suitable for PIN entry.
UIKeyboardTypePhonePad,               // A phone pad (1-9, *, 0, #, with letters under the numbers).
UIKeyboardTypeNamePhonePad,           // A type optimized for entering a person's name or phone number.
UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress            // A type optimized for multiple email address entry (shows space @ . prominently).

The one you are looking for (shows @ and .com) is UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress

Answer 2

implement this

-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)sender{
[textField setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddressL];
}

Answer 3

If you created your UITextField using interface builder, then navigate to the attributes inspector and change Keyboard to E-mail Address.

If you created it programmatically then add this

[yourTextField setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress];

or

yourTextField.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress;