Autocomplete

Overview

Autocomplete is a very important part of the typing experience, where suggestions can be shown as the user types, and autocorrections can automatically correct the typed text.

KeyboardKit Pro unlocks local & remote autocomplete and automatically enables autocomplete for many of the supported languages when you register a valid license key.

Namespace

KeyboardKit has an Autocomplete namespace that contains autocomplete-related types and views, like the Suggestion that is returned by an AutocompleteService when performing autocomplete.

Context

KeyboardKit has an observable AutocompleteContext that provides observable autocomplete state, such as the suggestions to present, as well as persistent settings like isAutocompleteEnabled.

Services

In KeyboardKit, an AutocompleteService can provide suggestions when the user types or the text cursor moves in the text. KeyboardKit Pro unlocks a local on-device service and a remote one.

Views

The Autocomplete namespace has autocomplete-specific views, that can be used to mimic native autocomplete toolbars and items, such as the customizable Autocomplete.Toolbar:

An autocomplete toolbar

This view can be styled with the autocompleteToolbarStyle(_:) view modifier and use custom views.

👑 KeyboardKit Pro

KeyboardKit Pro unlocks local and remote autocomplete, and makes KeyboardKit automatically perform autocomplete on-device as the user types, without having to write any additional code.

Local Autocomplete

An Autocomplete.LocalService performs autocomplete locally, on-device. It supports ,many locales, works offline, doesn’t require Full Access and can integrate with system services, like a local lexicon.

Remote Autocomplete

An Autocomplete.RemoteService can be used to perform autocomplete by calling an external API. It requires that the device is online, and requires Full Access to perform network requests.

Next Character Prediction

The LocalService and RemoteService will automatically perform next-character predictions based on the result. The result is used by KeyboardView to increase the tap area of more probable keys.

Next Word Prediction (BETA)

Apple’s native text prediction utilities stopped supporting next word prediction in iOS 16, which means that we can only use it to complete and correct words that we have started typing.

KeyboardKit Pro unlocks ways to inject 3rd party support for performing next word prediction, by specifying a NextWordPredictionRequest in your KeyboardApp.

KeyboardKit Pro 9.0 supports Claude integration, with more integrations coming in future versions.

Documentation

The information on this page is shortened to be easier to overview. For more information see the online documentation, or the KeyboardKit Pro documentation.