how to popup default iphone keyboard on a button click

Question

Hi When we click on a UITextField or UITextView, a default keyboard pops up from the bottom of iphone screen. I want iphone keyboard to appear on a button click, and then handle the keys as typed on keyboard... How can i do that?

Answer 1

Add touchupinside event on button and call becomeFirstResponder method for textview or textfield it will call pop up keyboard. see the following code-

-(IBAction)buttonClicktoModalView:(id)sender{
[textView becomeFirstResponder];
}

Answer 2

I was searching my problem, and came across the following stackoverflow link which answers my question

How to pull up a UIKeyboard without a UITextField or UITextView?

Thank you