{"id":9096,"date":"2014-07-06T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2014-07-08T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T20:02:00","slug":"ios-8-keyboards-cant-implement-swipeselection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/06\/ios-8-keyboards-cant-implement-swipeselection\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 8 Keyboards Can&rsquo;t Implement SwipeSelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weheartswift.com\/make-custom-keyboard-ios-8-using-swift\/\">Andrei Puni<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=220\">Clark Goble<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.weheartswift.com\/make-custom-keyboard-ios-8-using-swift\/\"><p>Your custom keyboard does not have access to the view hierarchy of the input, it cannot control the cursor and select text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m really surprised that Apple hasn&rsquo;t improved text selection yet.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2014-07-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olemoritz\/status\/486249835482603520\">Ole Zorn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olemoritz\/status\/486249835482603520\"><p>Looks like it's possible to move the cursor with a custom keyboard in beta 3. :)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Puni (via Clark Goble): Your custom keyboard does not have access to the view hierarchy of the input, it cannot control the cursor and select text. I&rsquo;m really surprised that Apple hasn&rsquo;t improved text selection yet. Update (2014-07-08): Ole Zorn: Looks like it's possible to move the cursor with a custom keyboard in beta [&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":[2],"tags":[31,904,423,769],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-keyboard","tag-swipeselection"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","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=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}