So a few years ago I developed some keyboard for Nokia devices.
They were Symbian and J2ME apps that provided the user more writing languages, since Nokia only gave you 1 or 2 keyboards, even tough the machine had all the fonts and everything.
Android devices let developers create 3rd party keyboards for a long time
During WWDC14 , Apple announced the new iOS8 Extensions API, which allows creating Custom Keyboards for the iPhone
So I set out to look for a template to create my custom keyboard - but naturally fount nothing, as this was the first day they released the iOS8 and Xcode6 betas
Eventually I created my own template for iOS8 custom keyboard
You can download it here: iOS 8 Custom Keyboard Template
A hideous example I built with it:
A hideous example I built with it:
You can change the xib file to whatever you wish thus creating whatever UI experience you want
Share your keyboards!