I've been researching for quite a while and none of the solutions seemed viable enough. For example: articles as referred within Force software keyboard on iOS 10
Our bluetooth bar code scanner has a button which brings up/down the soft/virtual keyboard, but that's definitely not as user-friendly as having a keyboard popping up when focusing on text input.
Is there anyway to accomodate both virtual/soft keyboard and bluetooth keyboard input on iOS? Thanks!
We've also looked into this which seems promising, display soft keyboard (iPad) when is connected a bluetooth input device but it requires importing of private framework which isn't supported on newer XCode's, and isn't App Store-Ready?