How to disable keyboard appearing when hitting on a text field , iOS?

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user1498477 picture user1498477 · Feb 28, 2013 · Viewed 23.1k times · Source

I have a text field , and i need when the user presses it to show a custom picker.

The picker is shown fine , but the problem is that the keyboard appears on the bottom and i dont want that.

This is an iPad project which i am trying to convert from my iphone one. On the iPhone , this works well and the keyboard is always hidden.

What could i be missing/forgetting to do here ?

EDIT

For future reference what actually happened here , was that in fact both times (iphone & ipad) the keyboard was not hidden. I just thought that it was hidden in the iphone because my picker , which was popping from the bottom was hiding the keyboard as it was on top of it. But on ipad this wasnt the case.

Anyway i fixed it , using the delegate method suggested below.

Caution , i accepted this answer cause it was the one answering specifically what i wanted. The rest of the answers are correct and my considered better for other implementations.

Answer

Maheta Dhaval K picture Maheta Dhaval K · Feb 28, 2013 
-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    // Here You can do additional code or task instead of writing with keyboard
    return NO;
}

this delegate method will get called first when you hit to textfield and if you write NO as a boolean value means you dont want to begin editing so it will not present Keyboard.

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