Detect if Custom Keyboard has been installed

Question

I've read through the documentation and can't seem to find any method of how can I detect if a custom keyboard has been installed in settings>general>keyboards?

Does anyone know of any?

Answer 1

This is possible with NSUserDefaults. Just retrieve the standardUserDefaults object which contains an array of all the keyboards the user has installed for key "AppleKeyboards". Then check if the array contains the bundle identifier for your keyboard extension.

NSArray *keyboards = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"AppleKeyboards"];
NSLog(@"keyboards: %@", keyboards);

// check for your keyboard
NSUInteger index = [keyboards indexOfObject:@"com.example.productname.keyboard-extension"];

if (index != NSNotFound) {
    NSLog(@"found keyboard");
}

Answer 2

This works for me

func isKeyboardExtensionEnabled() -> Bool {
    guard let appBundleIdentifier = Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier else {
        fatalError("isKeyboardExtensionEnabled(): Cannot retrieve bundle identifier.")
    }

    guard let keyboards = UserDefaults.standard.dictionaryRepresentation()["AppleKeyboards"] as? [String] else {
        // There is no key `AppleKeyboards` in NSUserDefaults. That happens sometimes.
        return false
    }

    let keyboardExtensionBundleIdentifierPrefix = appBundleIdentifier + "."
    for keyboard in keyboards {
        if keyboard.hasPrefix(keyboardExtensionBundleIdentifierPrefix) {
            return true
        }
    }

    return false
}