Styling

While iOS has very limited ways to customize the look and feel of the native keyboard, KeyboardKit can be styled and customized to great extent, using styles and themes.

KeyboardKit has a KeyboardStyle namespace that contains style-related types and views, as well as a KeyboardStyleService that can provide dynamic styles for different parts of a keyboard.

Colors & Images

KeyboardKit defines keyboard-specific Color and Image assets that can be used in any keyboard.

See the docs for info on how semi-transparent colors are used to work around a system bug in iOS.

Type Extensions

Many KeyboardKit types define standard images, texts & colors. For instance:

let context = KeyboardContext()
let image = KeyboardAction.command.standardButtonImage(for: context) // Command icon
let text = KeyboardAction.space.standardButtonText(for: context)     // KKL10n.space

Style Modifiers

Most KeyboardKit views have custom styles and style modifiers. For instance, the Keyboard.Button view has a Keyboard.ButtonStyle that can be applied with the .keyboardButtonStyle(_:) modifier.

👑 KeyboardKit Pro

KeyboardKit Pro unlocks additional image assets, and a KeyboardTheme engine that makes easier to style keyboards with themes.

Emoji Icons

KeyboardKit Pro emoji-specific, vectorized assets, like the .keyboardEmoji and .emojiCategory(_:):

Emoji Images

Themes

KeyboardKit Pro unlocks a KeyboardTheme engine that makes easier to style keyboards with themes:

See themes for more information about the KeyboardKit Pro theme engine and its various themes.

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.