keyboard size returning wrong values?

Question

On iPad, after subscribing to UIKeyboardDidShowNotification

NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
CGSize kbSize = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;
NSLog(@"%@", NSStringFromCGSize(kbSize));

prints {352, 1024}

Isn't this wrong? Not only is height of keyboard so large, how can height be larger than width? Or am i missing something?

Answer 1

I bet the dimensions are reported in a static orientation (the 'window' orientation never actually changes), so I suggest translating that to your view of interest. My normal trick is to convert it to the coordinate space of the window's rootViewController's view:

CGRect rawKeyboardRect = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
CGRect properlyRotatedCoords = [self.view.window convertRect:rawKeyboardRect toView:self.view.window.rootViewController.view];

Or a more appropriate view if you have one available. The key is that any coordinates reported in the window's coordinate space are not rotated, even if the window's rootVC's view is.