# Goal

I want to make a custom keyboard that is only used within my app, not a system keyboard that needs to be installed.

# What I have read and tried

**Documentation**

- [App Extension Programming Guide: Custom Keyboard][1]
- [Custom Views for Data Input][2]

The first article above states:

&gt; Make sure a custom, systemwide keyboard is indeed what you want to
&gt; develop. To provide a fully custom keyboard for just your app or to
&gt; supplement the system keyboard with custom keys in just your app, the
&gt; iOS SDK provides other, better options. Read about custom input views
&gt; and input accessory views in Custom Views for Data Input in Text
&gt; Programming Guide for iOS.

That is what led me to the second article above. However, that article did not have enough detail to get me started.

**Tutorials**

- [iOS 8: Creating a Custom Keyboard in Swift][3]
- [How to make a custom keyboard in iOS 8 using Swift][4]
- [Xcode 6 Tutorial: iOS 8.0 Simple Custom Keyboard in Swift][5] 
- [Creating a Custom Keyboard Using iOS 8 App Extension][6]

I was able to get a working keyboard from the second tutorial in the list above. However, I couldn&#39;t find any tutorials that showed how to make an in app only keyboard as described in the [Custom Views for Data Input][2] documentation.

**Stack Overflow**

I also asked (and answered) these questions on my way to answering the current question.

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33497693/how-to-input-text-using-the-buttons-of-an-in-app-custom-keyboard
- [Delegates in Swift][7]

# Question

Does anyone have a minimal example (with even one button) of an in app custom keyboard? I am not looking for a whole tutorial, just a proof of concept that I can expand on myself.

  [1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html
  [2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/InputViews/InputViews.html
  [3]: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ios-8-creating-a-custom-keyboard-in-swift--cms-22344
  [4]: https://www.weheartswift.com/make-custom-keyboard-ios-8-using-swift/
  [5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Q91TY1J-o
  [6]: http://www.appcoda.com/custom-keyboard-tutorial/
  [7]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33549729/3681880

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A Swift example of Custom Views for Data Input (custom in-app keyboard)