keyboard persist between fields
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To make the keyboard persist between fields in your app, you can use the textInputContextIdentifier method on UIResponder. This method allows you to return a unique string identifier for each text input context, which helps the keyboard remember the language or input method used in different contexts. This is particularly useful for multilingual apps where users might switch between different languages or input methods.
Here's a relevant segment from the session "Build multilingual-ready apps":
"As April tapped into each of those conversations, the keyboard remembered which language she speaks with each of them. Let me show you how you can do this in your app. It's really simple. All you need to do is to override
textInputContextIdentifier, which is a method onUIResponder, and return a unique string identifier."
For more details, you can refer to the session Build multilingual-ready apps (02:50).
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