Native keyboard appears after 2 two seconds

fpassa · April 19, 2010, 9:41am

Hi all,

it isn’t a bug itself, but I noticed that native.keyboard appears with some delays when it is invoked. I know there is not a failure, but from user experience sometimes I noticed people think that keyboard is not working or touch is not responding, which gives the user a bad impression of the application.

So, may be you also noticed that and perhaps it is related to something in your wrapper function of your native iPhone OS API, it means something that may be you can fix.

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evank · April 29, 2010, 7:20pm

Hi, Flavio. What device and OS version are you using?

I used to notice a keyboard delay on my iPhone 3G (including in non-Corona apps), but I’m looking at our “NativeKeyboard” test project on my 3GS, and the keyboard appears right away. I also just tested on iPad, and it appears right away there too. So I’m pretty sure we’re doing it as fast as natively possible on the device.

It’s also possible that Apple is helping by preloading more resources in later versions of iPhoneOS, which is why I asked about your OS version. If you want to test the same code as me, grab today’s 2.0 Beta 2, and also the NativeKeyboard sample from the beta downloads page.

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fpassa · April 29, 2010, 7:46pm

Evank,

I didn’t receive the email to download beta 2. Anyway I tested on 1.13 and 2.0 Beta 1 SDKs and my device is 3G 16Gb with 3.1 firmware version.

Regards,
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evank · April 29, 2010, 7:49pm

Yep, that’s what my previous phone was too. The new one seems to have a much faster keyboard.

However, if you want to check out the sample code I’m using, go to https://developer.anscamobile.com/downloads/beta and scroll down to “New Keyboard Types”, where you can grab the sample (and of course also install the beta from that page, since the sample uses new features like numeric keyboard options). [import]uid: 3007 topic_id: 818 reply_id: 1996[/import]