Friday, Aug. 17th 2018
Custom Input View on iOS: Hiding UITextInputAssistantItems
I've been working on a small app with a custom inputView and a custom inputAccessoryView.
One issue I experienced on iPad was this goofy bar sandwiched between both custom input views (pictured below).
After some searching, I found out that those are UITextInputAssistantItems.
The app I’m working on has a unique and minimal amount of text input that is required. It doesn’t make sense to have undo, redo or copy & paste taking up so much screen real-estate.
I discovered that if you create a custom UITextField class and set both of the leadingBarButtonGroups and trailingBarButtonGroups to an empty array the UITextInputAssistantItem bar will disappear.
class CustomTextField: UITextField {
init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
// remove undo/redo and copy/paste item bar on ipad
inputAssistantItem.leadingBarButtonGroups = []
inputAssistantItem.trailingBarButtonGroups = []
}
}
Updated on Saturday, Feb. 15th 2020