Slidden is an open source, customizable, iOS 8 keyboard, written in Swift. iOS 8 brought us the ability to create fully customizable keyboards, but does not provide a strong foundation to start from. Slidden aims to remedy that by providing an easy way to get started making your own iOS keyboards.

Slidden is named after the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter and the origin of the QWERTY keyboard.

Features

Planned for 1.0 Release

• Multiple states (Shift, numbers/symbols, etc.)
• Full default English keyboard
• Delegate

Notice

Slidden is in its early stages of life. Code will change dramatically between updates. Please consider contributing your ideas if you think something is missing!

Requirements

• Xcode 10
• Swift 5.0
• iOS 8.0+

Installation

At the current moment, the best installation method is to add Slidden as a git submodule and add Slidden.framework to your list of Target Dependencies. Don't forget to add Slidden.framework to your keyboard's list of target dependencies as well!

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Usage

Simple

If you subclass Slidden.KeyboardViewController, you get a KeyboardView and nice autolayout constraints right out of the box. Subclassing is as easy as:

class KeyboardViewController: Slidden.KeyboardViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Add the keys we need to the keyboard
        setupKeys()
    }

Add keys to the keyboard.

func setupKeys() {
        let helloKey = KeyboardKeyView(type: .Character, keyCap: "Hello", outputText: "Hello")
        helloKey.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        helloKey.color = UIColor.blueColor()
        self.keyboardView.addKey(helloKey, row: 0)
        
        let worldKey = KeyboardKeyView(type: .Character, keyCap: "World", outputText: "World")
        worldKey.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        worldKey.color = UIColor.redColor()
        self.keyboardView.addKey(worldKey, row: 0)
}

Add images to your keys.

func setupKeys() {
	let shiftKey = KeyboardKeyView(type: .Shift, keyCap:"", outputText: "")
    let img = UIImage(named:"Shift")
    shiftKey.image = img
    shiftKey.imageView.contentMode = .Center
}

If you want your image to be the same color as your other keys' text, you can use shouldColorImage to have CoreGraphics redraw the image of your key with the uniform color.

func setupKeys() {
	let shiftKey = KeyboardKeyView(type: .Shift, keyCap:"", outputText: "")
    let img = UIImage(named:"Shift")
    
    shiftKey.image = img
    shiftKey.imageView.contentMode = .Center
    
    shiftKey.color = UIColor.blueColor()
    shiftKey.selectedColor = UIColor.darkerBlueColor()
    shiftKey.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    shiftKey.shouldColorImage = true // Will redraw the Shift image to match `textColor`
}

Complex

More Coming Soon

Examples

Creator

• Daniel Brim (@brimizer)

License

Slidden is released under an MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.