Create Custom International Keyboard for Iphone

Create custom international keyboard for iPhone

As per Apple's submission guidelines:

• 2.5 Apps that use non-public APIs will be rejected
• 2.6 Apps that read or write data outside its designated container area will be rejected

There are no public APIs to add an additional keyboard.

The files that store keyboard data are definitely stored outside of your app's container.

In short: There is no way to implement a custom global keyboard on a non-jailbroken iOS device at this point in time.

Create custom keyboard and configure it on your iPhone

The Emoji keyboard is build-in in iOS.

The only thing all the "Emoji" apps existing on the AppStore (like "emoji-free!") are doing, is that they activate this keyboard in the System Preferences, because it is hidden by default.
These apps don't "create and install" the keyboard itself neither do they install the icons and glyphs (symbols), the smileys are already built-in in iOS too.

For example if an iPhone user receive a text message (SMS) containing some smileys, they do will see the smiley, even if they don't have installed any "Emoji-enabler" app like "Emoji-free!".

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To be more precise, the emoji icons that Apple embedded in the iPhone fonts are not approved by the Unicode Standard. They are located in the "private" plane of Unicode: their codepoint is in a range that is especially reserved for private uses -- like the one Apple does by using it for these emojis -- but by definition as it is a private region, there is no dedicated name and standardized usage of these codepoint accross applications (contrary to codepoints like U+0041 which is dedicated to the glyph representing the latin letter "A")

How Add my iPhone application on international keybord?

Your application can display a custom keyboard from any TextView or TextField by returning a custom UIView (that would be your keyboard) from the inputView property on those text input views. There is no existing keyboard to inherit from, so you'll have to implement everything your self.

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