How to avoid keyboard hide & show when focus changes from UITextField and UIWebView?

Question

I have a requirement in which the view contains one native UITextField and one UIWebView. The issue is if I switch the focus from UITextView to UIWebView, the keyboard window flicker(hides and then shows). ie, I got UIKeyboardWillHideNotification and UIKeyboardDidShowNotification

But, this is not happening when I switch the other way. ies, I got only UIKeyboardDidShowNotification

Is there any way to avoid this flickering effect?

Note: I also notices if I have multiple UITextField and UIWebView, this issue is not happening with the same type of views.

Answer 1

I've solved this problem through the code below. Simply set webView.usesGUIFixes = YES; and it should solve your problem. The code below also lets you set a custom input view to use for the UIWebView keyboard:

UIWebView+GUIFixes.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIWebView (GUIFixes)

/**
 *  @brief      The custom input accessory view.
 */
@property (nonatomic, strong, readwrite) UIView* customInputAccessoryView;

/**
 *  @brief      Wether the UIWebView will use the fixes provided by this category or not.
 */
@property (nonatomic, assign, readwrite) BOOL usesGUIFixes;

@end

UIWebView+GUIFixes.m

#import "UIWebView+GUIFixes.h"
#import <objc/runtime.h>

@implementation UIWebView (GUIFixes)

static const char* const kCustomInputAccessoryView = "kCustomInputAccessoryView";
static const char* const fixedClassName = "UIWebBrowserViewMinusAccessoryView";
static Class fixClass = Nil;

- (UIView *)browserView
{
    UIScrollView *scrollView = self.scrollView;

    UIView *browserView = nil;
    for (UIView *subview in scrollView.subviews) {
        if ([NSStringFromClass([subview class]) hasPrefix:@"UIWebBrowserView"]) {
            browserView = subview;
            break;
        }
    }

    return browserView;
}

- (id)methodReturningCustomInputAccessoryView
{
    UIView* view = [self performSelector:@selector(originalInputAccessoryView) withObject:nil];

    if (view) {

        UIView* parentWebView = self.superview;

        while (parentWebView && ![parentWebView isKindOfClass:[UIWebView class]])
        {
            parentWebView = parentWebView.superview;
        }

        UIView* customInputAccessoryView = [(UIWebView*)parentWebView customInputAccessoryView];

        if (customInputAccessoryView) {
            view = customInputAccessoryView;
        }
    }

    return view;
}

- (BOOL)delayedBecomeFirstResponder
{
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(0.01 * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        [super becomeFirstResponder];
    });

    return YES;
}

- (void)ensureFixedSubclassExistsOfBrowserViewClass:(Class)browserViewClass
{
    if (!fixClass) {
        Class newClass = objc_allocateClassPair(browserViewClass, fixedClassName, 0);
        IMP oldImp = class_getMethodImplementation(browserViewClass, @selector(inputAccessoryView));
        class_addMethod(newClass, @selector(originalInputAccessoryView), oldImp, "@@:");

        IMP newImp = [self methodForSelector:@selector(methodReturningCustomInputAccessoryView)];
        class_addMethod(newClass, @selector(inputAccessoryView), newImp, "@@:");
        objc_registerClassPair(newClass);

        IMP delayedFirstResponderImp = [self methodForSelector:@selector(delayedBecomeFirstResponder)];
        Method becomeFirstResponderMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(browserViewClass, @selector(becomeFirstResponder));
        method_setImplementation(becomeFirstResponderMethod, delayedFirstResponderImp);

        fixClass = newClass;
    }
}

- (BOOL)usesGUIFixes
{
    UIView *browserView = [self browserView];
    return [browserView class] == fixClass;
}

- (void)setUsesGUIFixes:(BOOL)value
{
    UIView *browserView = [self browserView];
    if (browserView == nil) {
        return;
    }

    [self ensureFixedSubclassExistsOfBrowserViewClass:[browserView class]];

    if (value) {
        object_setClass(browserView, fixClass);
    }
    else {
        Class normalClass = objc_getClass("UIWebBrowserView");
        object_setClass(browserView, normalClass);
    }

    [browserView reloadInputViews];
}

- (UIView*)customInputAccessoryView
{
    return objc_getAssociatedObject(self, kCustomInputAccessoryView);
}

- (void)setCustomInputAccessoryView:(UIView*)view
{
    objc_setAssociatedObject(self,
                             kCustomInputAccessoryView,
                             view,
                             OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN);
}

@end