{"id":10110,"date":"2014-11-22T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2014-11-22T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:47:40","slug":"the-trials-and-tribulations-of-writing-a-3rd-party-ios-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-writing-a-3rd-party-ios-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trials and Tribulations of Writing a 3rd Party iOS Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta-blog.archagon.net\/2014\/11\/08\/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-writing-a-3rd-party-ios-keyboard\/\">Alexei Baboulevitch<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/iosdevweekly.com\/issues\/172\">iOS Dev Weekly<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/beta-blog.archagon.net\/2014\/11\/08\/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-writing-a-3rd-party-ios-keyboard\/\">\n<p>I recently released my first commercial project: <a href=\"http:\/\/translit-keyboard.archagon.net\/\">Translit Keyboard<\/a>, a 3rd party keyboard for iPhone that lets you transliterate Latin characters into Cyrillic and some other alphabets.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This was a satisfying project to work on, giving me great insight into Swift, autolayout (since removed), Core Graphics, and a bit of Interface Builder. But it also gave me experience with something that I had yet to encounter in my sheltered iOS development existence: the horror of undercooked Apple frameworks and tools.<\/p>\n<p>Below are as many of the problems I encountered during development as I can remember. I have high hopes that these will be fixed over the next few years, but until then, perhaps this article will help some poor programmer in dire straits!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexei Baboulevitch (via iOS Dev Weekly): I recently released my first commercial project: Translit Keyboard, a 3rd party keyboard for iPhone that lets you transliterate Latin characters into Cyrillic and some other alphabets. [&#8230;] This was a satisfying project to work on, giving me great insight into Swift, autolayout (since removed), Core Graphics, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[200,131,905,31,904,26,423,71,901,1061],"class_list":["post-10110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-autolayout","tag-bug","tag-extensions","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-iosapp","tag-keyboard","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language","tag-translit-keyboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10111,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions\/10111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}