iPhone - Have the keyboard slide into view from the right like when editing a note in Contacts

Question

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to slide the keyboard into view from the right, like what happens in the Contacts application when you edit a note.

My problem is that when I call [someTextView becomeFirstResponder] in viewWillAppear, the keyboard immediatly pops up with no animation. And when I call it in viewDidAppear, the view first slides in from the right (UINavigationController does the sliding), and then the keyboard slides in from the bottom.

Is it possible to have the keyboard slide in from the right, together with the view?

Answer 1

I think this may be what you're looking for.

http://blog.weareuproar.com/?p=13

Answer 2

You could try sending the becomeFirstResponder message to the new view controller before you push it onto the stack. For example:

-(void)functionWhereYouPushTheNewViewController {
  yourNewViewController *newVC = [[yourNewViewController alloc] init];
  [newVC.yourTextView becomeFirstResponder];
  [self.navigationController pushViewController:newVC animated:YES];
}

I have found that changing animations on things like they keyboard is pretty tough though, and if you read the Human Interface Guidelines Apple makes it pretty clear that they want certain things to act in certain ways, all the time. There are ways to change the behaviors of certain animations but they often involve undocumented API calls and are grounds for rejection from the app store. It would be a violation of HIG to have pushed views slide up from the bottom, for example.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

All you need to do is tell the text view in question to become the first responder in the -viewDidLoad method of the view controller you are pushing onto the navigation stack:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [someTextView becomeFirstResponder];
    [super viewDidLoad];
}

I have tested this and it works. The keyboard slides in from the right along with the view.

Answer 4

Toon van Acker, you wrote you solved the problem, will you please share the answer with us? I got the exact same problem with a textField inside a table view cell.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 5

I had the same problem and managed to find this answer: here