Question

I am wondering why I am not able to find any help regarding the keyboard keyup/keydown events, I actually want to detect which key is been pressed by the user via keyboard on iphone while inputting the text in the UITextField.

Answer 1

You can use this delegate method to get the character that’s being entered into a UITextField:

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string;

For example:

if ([string isEqualToString:@"z"]){
    // z is being typed.
}

Just make sure you’ve said your UITextField’s delegate to the class file where you implement this.