Question

When my iPhone app starts up, the main screen has a keyboard. Currently the keyboard rises as soon as the rest of the interface is displayed and this is visually distracting.

How can I have the view display with the keyboard already up?

Since I am already faking some of the rest of the screen during startup so that the user sees what they last were doing, I thought that I could fake the keyboard as well. But if the motion is there when the real keyboard appears, I’ve lost the effect. The keyboard is, as far as I know, on a separate window, not just a separate view, so I can’t overlay it with my own image.

Is there a way to either overlay the keyboard withy my own image as it appears, or not show the keyboard until it is all the way up, or make its animation instant?

Answer 1

My original answer has the keyboard animate in along with the view controller if it’s an animated transition (i.e. pushing a view controller or presenting a modal controller with animated: YES). However, the keyboard still animates in if the new view controller is displayed without an animated transition, so it doesn’t solve your problem.

Here’s another approach that worked in my testing. Try disabling animations while you’re displaying the controller + keyboard.

[UIWindow beginAnimations: nil context: NULL];
[UIWindow setAnimationsEnabled: NO];

RestoredController *controller = [[[RestoredController alloc] init] autorelease];
[self.navigationController pushViewController: controller animated: NO];

[UIWindow commitAnimations];

You’ll still need to make field the first responder in viewWillAppear: or viewDidAppear: