KeyboardLayoutEngine

⌨️ The most simple custom keyboard generator for iOS ever!

KeyboardLayoutEngine is all about laying out keyboard buttons dynamically in a rectangle with a custom style easily. For the sake of flexibility, KeyboardLayoutEngine provides:

• KeyboardLayout: For laying out rows with custom paddings, colors.
• KeyboardRow: For laying out buttons or another set of KeyboardRow's inside.
• KeyboardButton: For rendering buttons in rows. Also provides flexible width, type and other very useful API's.
• They are also UIViews and handles their layout in their layoutSubviews function.
• They are faster than autolayout yet they can adopt perfectly any CGFrame you want apply a keyboard layout.
• That means they are play very well with orientation changes. (Layout for size class and/or orientation support is on the way.)
• KeyboardLayoutStyle, KeyboardRowStyle and KeyboardButtonStyle structs handles pretty much everything about styling.
• KeyboardLayoutDelegate for inform about button presses.
• Also CustomKeyboard provided out of box, a good start point for figuring out how it works other than being of fully functional original keyboard.

Install

CocoaPods

use_frameworks!
# Target Keyboard
pod 'KeyboardLayoutEngine'

Usage

• Describe your keyboard with custom styles, rows and buttons with either text or image in it.
• Checkout the CustomKeyboardLayout for detailed usage.

let keyboardLayout = KeyboardLayout(
  style: CustomKeyboardLayoutStyle,
  rows: [
    KeyboardRow(
      style: CustomKeyboardRowStyle,
      characters: [
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("Q"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("W"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("E"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("R"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("T"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("Y"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("U"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("I"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("O"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
        KeyboardButton(type: .Key("P"), style: CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle),
      ]
    )
  ]
)

override func viewDidLoad() {
	super.viewDidLoad()
	view.addSubview(keyboardLayout)
}

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
	super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
	keyboardLayout.setNeedsLayout()
}

KeyboardLayoutDelegate

• Implement KeyboardLayoutDelegate for get information about the button presses.

@objc public protocol KeyboardLayoutDelegate {
  // Key Press Events
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didKeyPressStart keyboardButton: KeyboardButton)
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didKeyPressEnd keyboardButton: KeyboardButton)
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didDraggedIn fromKeyboardButton: KeyboardButton, toKeyboardButton: KeyboardButton)
  // Touch Events
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didTouchesBegin touches: Set<UITouch>)
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didTouchesMove touches: Set<UITouch>)
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didTouchesEnd touches: Set<UITouch>?)
  optional func keyboardLayout(keyboardLayout: KeyboardLayout, didTouchesCancel touches: Set<UITouch>?)
}

KeyboardButtonWidth

public enum KeyboardButtonWidth {
  case Dynamic
  case Static(width: CGFloat)
  case Relative(percent: CGFloat)
}

• Laying out buttons in rows are important. Since rows can their child rows, calculating right sizes for buttons and rows done by button types.
• If you leave .Dynamic which is default by the way, every button in a row, it will calculate their width by KeyboardRowStyle.buttonPadding and total width of row and figure out equal widths with equal buttonPaddings.
• Static will be static width obviusly.
• Relative is an interesting one, which takes a value between [0, 1], fills percent of parent row, smartly calculated.

KeyboardButtonType

public enum KeyboardButtonType {
  case Key(String)
  case Text(String)
  case Image(UIImage?)
}

• A button can be Key, Text or Image.
• Key case might be useful for textDocumentProxy.insertTextoperation.
• Text case might be useful for buttons like "space", "return", "ABC", "123" or any string include emojis.
• Image case might be useful for buttons like "shift", "backspace", "switch keyboard" etc.

Styling

• Every style struct has their default values in taste of original keyboard.
• If you dont assign a value in init function of a style struct, it will be loaded with its default value.

KeyboardLayoutStyle

Definition:

public struct KeyboardLayoutStyle {
  public var topPadding: CGFloat
  public var bottomPadding: CGFloat
  public var rowPadding: CGFloat
  public var backgroundColor: UIColor
}

Example:

let CustomKeyboardLayoutStyle = KeyboardLayoutStyle(
  topPadding: 10,
  bottomPadding: 5,
  rowPadding: 13,
  backgroundColor: UIColor(red: 208.0/255.0, green: 213.0/255.0, blue: 219.0/255.0, alpha: 1))

KeyboardRowStyle

Definition:

public struct KeyboardRowStyle {
  public var leadingPadding: CGFloat
  public var trailingPadding: CGFloat
  public var buttonsPadding: CGFloat
}

Example:

let CustomKeyboardRowStyle = KeyboardRowStyle(
  leadingPadding: 5,
  trailingPadding: 5,
  buttonsPadding: 6)

KeyboardButtonStyle

Definition:

public struct KeyboardButtonStyle {
  public var backgroundColor: UIColor
  public var cornerRadius: CGFloat

  // Border
  public var borderColor: UIColor
  public var borderWidth: CGFloat

  // Shadow
  public var shadowColor: UIColor
  public var shadowOpacity: Float
  public var shadowOffset: CGSize
  public var shadowRadius: CGFloat
  public var shadowPath: UIBezierPath?

  // Text
  public var textColor: UIColor
  public var font: UIFont

  // Image
  public var imageSize: CGFloat?

  // Popup
  public var showsPopup: Bool
  public var popupWidthMultiplier: CGFloat
  public var popupHeightMultiplier: CGFloat
}

Example:

let CustomKeyboardDarkImageButtonStyle = KeyboardButtonStyle(
  backgroundColor: UIColor(red: 180.0/255.0, green: 188.0/255.0, blue: 201.0/255.0, alpha: 1),
  imageSize: 18,
  showsPopup: false)

CustomKeyboard

Default iOS Keyboard implementation with KeyboardLayoutEngine.

• Shift toggle mechanism
• Backspace mechanism
• Key button popups
• textDocumentProxy integrations with CustomKeyboardDelegate
• Ridiculusly easy implementation in KeyboardViewController
• Change default styles before initialize it and you have your fully functional customized standard English QWERTY keyboard!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    CustomKeyboardLayoutStyle.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
    CustomKeyboardRowStyle.buttonsPadding = 5
    customKeyboard = CustomKeyboard()
    customKeyboard.delegate = self
    view.addSubview(customKeyboard)
}

CustomKeyboard styles

• CustomKeyboardLayoutStyle: KeyboardLayoutStyle
• CustomKeyboardRowStyle: KeyboardRowStyle
• CustomKeyboardSecondRowStyle: KeyboardRowStyle
• CustomKeyboardChildRowStyle: KeyboardRowStyle
• CustomKeyboardSpaceButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardBackspaceButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardShiftButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardGlobeButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardReturnButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardNumbersButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle
• CustomKeyboardKeyButtonStyle: KeyboardButtonStyle

CustomKeyboardDelegate

• Provides information about key and special button presses.

@objc public protocol CustomKeyboardDelegate {
optional func customKeyboard(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard, keyboardButtonPressed keyboardButton: KeyboardButton)
optional func customKeyboard(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard, keyButtonPressed key: String)
optional func customKeyboardSpaceButtonPressed(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard)
optional func customKeyboardBackspaceButtonPressed(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard)
optional func customKeyboardGlobeButtonPressed(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard)
optional func customKeyboardReturnButtonPressed(customKeyboard: CustomKeyboard)
}