Focus on next valid key view on iPhone

Question

Is there an iPhone equivalent for the NSResponder methods -selectNextKeyView or -nextValidKeyView from Mac OS X? I know about the -becomeFirstResponder method, but finding out which view to call that on is not very pretty when view hierarchies get more complicated.

There must be some kind of way to find this out as when I press tab when in the iPhone Simulator, focus does properly go to the next UITextField. This made me wonder what exactly happens when I press tab. Any ideas?

Update: This does exactly what I want, but _nextKeyResponder is private API, so a no-no. Is there any way to do a 'fake' tab key press without using private API?

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
    // Try to find next responder
    UIView *nextResponder = (UIView *)[self.view _nextKeyResponder];

    if (nextResponder) {
        // Found next responder, so set it.
        [nextResponder becomeFirstResponder];
        [self.tableView scrollRectToVisible:[self.tableView convertRect:[nextResponder frame] fromView:nextResponder] animated:YES];
    } else {
        // Not found, so remove keyboard.
        [textField resignFirstResponder];
    }
    return NO; // We do not want UITextField to insert line-breaks.
}

Answer 1

In the UITextField delegate -textFieldDidEndEditing:, switch between the various text fields (for example, by testing the text field's tag property).

When you match one text field, set another text field or other control to become the next responder.