Is it possible to take advantage of the international keyboard feature for the iPhone and create a custom keyboard that can be used over the entire phone not just within a particular app?
Similar to the Emoji keyboard but I'm under the impression that's somehow native to iOS and is just disabled by default?
I've looked at a lot of the questions on here regarding this, I'd just like to get a definitive answer.
As per Apple's submission guidelines:
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.
As of iOS 8 you can now create custom keyboard extensions: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
The best way i found is to add shortcuts. Go in the keyboard setting and paste the symbols you copied from a document or safari and give it a shortcut. For exemple: for √ i used ss. So i just double the first letter of the thing. Or for an exponent like ², i just use 22. It takes a while to setup but its an easy way instead of switching between the symbol app and do a copy and paste every time. And for greek symbols, i just installed the greek keyboard. Have fun.
@0x90
this App adds an international keyboard to iOS (a keyboard you will see in your iOS general settings)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emoji-free!/id332509635?mt=8
how did they manage to do it?
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EDIT: i'm sorry for not searching it before, this should be the answer
