I have a UITextField in which the user is expected to type a sentence which we tell the user to type. So the sentence to type is already known to us. Midway of the sentence, the user has to secretl...

Is there a way (crazy hacks welcome) to get the current line as a string of a UITextView? This would include word wrapping, etc. For example, in this case: The method would return "stack overfl...

I'd like to programmatically put my UITextField input into dictation mode, without requiring the user to bring up and select dictation from the keyboard. Searched the API documentation but can find...

After adding a tap recognizer to my UITextView subclass, I'm attempting to get the character that is being tapped: var textRecognizer: UITapGestureRecognizer! required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCode...

Does UITextField ignore the inputDelegate? Using the following code: - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.textField.inputDelegate = self; NSLog(@"textField: %@", self.textField); N...

According to the doc, Marked text, which is part of multistage text input, represents provisionally inserted text that the user has yet to confirm. It is styled in a distinctive way. The range...

I have different examples where we can update the UITableViewCell height based on growing UITextView which actually is working for me. The issue which I am facing is, I have more subviews below UIT...

It seems that with iOS 8 and 9, Xcode 7 the properties beginningOfDocument and endOfDocument of UItextField are always nil whathever you do. Even worse they are not of an optional type (UITextPosit...

I could successfully add tap gestures to a part of UITextView with the following code: UITextPosition *pos = textView.endOfDocument;// textView ~ UITextView for (int i=0;i<words*2-1;i++){// *2...

I've spent hours trying to figure out how to create/then get a custom inputView to work. I have a grid of TextInputs (think scrabble board) that when pressed should load a custom inputView to inser...

Marking text in a UITextView, but for some reason it's refusing to accept anything I give it with setMarkedTextStyle. -markedTextStyle always returns nil, and the marked text always looks the same ...

Ok, so I know Apple's UITextInput protocol requires the two UITextRange properties selectedTextRange and markedTextRange and the documentation says that selectedTextRange is a subrange of markedTex...

UIKit text input components, such as UITextView and UITextField have a property inputView to add a custom keyboard. There are two questions I have relating to this. If the keyboard is currently v...

Is there a way to add a cancel button to the keyboard displayed for UITextField? Looking over the UITextInputTraits Protocol Reference, I could not find anything, including trying out the different...

How to respond to starting dictation? Known ways of responding to dictation: dictationRecordingDidEnd - respond to the completion of the recognition of a dictated phrase. dictationRecognitionFai...

I have user interface with UISearchBar and I implement the UISearchBarDelegate's searchBarSearchButtonClicked: to perform the search. I do not have a device with dictation support to test this, so ...

I want to set the marked text programmatically and since iOS5 UITextView and UITextField conform to UITextInput this should be possible but for some reason I always get the markedText to be nil. :(...