Dont show keyboard when textfield is tapped

Question

I have a UITextField and a UIDatePicker in my XIB file, now I assigned the date that is chosen on the UIDatePicker to be the value of the text in my textfield. I've done this well, my only problem now is that I want the keyboard not to show when I tap on the textfield. I'm sure somebody knows the answer, I will be glad if you will share it :) Thanks!

btw. I tried this, but it didn't work..

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}

Answer 1

Just set the UIDatePicker as the inputView of your UITextField.

This wil repalce the keyboard as the input view when the user clicks on the UItextField with the UIDatePicker.

self.dateTextField.inputView = self.datePicker;

Answer 2

You can set delegate in your UITextField and return NO in textFieldShouldBeginEditing.

Answer 3

Try this:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    if (textField.tag == YOU_TEXT_FIELD_TAG) {
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

Don't forget to make yourViewController conform to <UITextFieldDelegate> and also set yourTextField.delegate = self;

Answer 4

Since I didn't saw full answer, that I also needed, and come to solution with some answers here I'll put my code.

Simply put some "blank" UIView as input view.

Objective C

  UIView *hideKeyboardView = [[UIView alloc]init];
  self.yourTextField.inputView = hideKeyboardView;

Swift

let hideKeyboardView = UIView()
yourTextField.inputView = hideKeyboardView

Answer 5

I already fixed it! I added the following code on the viewDidLoad

    [self.dateField addTarget:self action:@selector(textFieldDidBeginEditing:) 
forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingDidBegin];

and I still used

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
}

Thanks for all your help anyway! Hope this thread will help others..