How to hide default keyboard

Question

I have 5 UITextFields added on a form. One of the textfileds is for entering the date of birth. So when that particular textfield is touched instead of displaying the default keyboard, datepicker needs to be displayed.

I tried the following:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
   [textField resignFirstResponder];
   [self showDatePicker];//this is my own function to display datepicker.
}

when this function is called the datepicker is displayed, along with the date picker the default keyboard is also displayed and that hides the datepicker. I don't know how to get rid of the default keyboard, for this particular textfiled. Please help me.

Answer 1

Though this is an old question, I came here while I was searching for the same.

This will work for any number/nesting of views presented in the screen,

- (void) hideKeyboard: (UIView *) view {
    NSArray *subviews = [view subviews];
    for (UIView *subview in subviews){
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
            [subview resignFirstResponder];
        }
        [self hideKeyboard: subview ];
    }
}

Later I found more intuitive way to do it,

[self.view endEditing:YES];

Answer 2

You can handle this in -textFieldShouldBeginEditing:.

If this method returns NO, the keyboard will not be displayed.

Simply show the date picker in this method and then return NO.