is it possible to create a keyboar app using Appcelerator?

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Is it possible to create a custom keyboard app using Appcelerator, the same manner that Emoji works?

http://itunes.apple.com/br/app/emoji-free!-emoticons-livres/id332509635?mt=8

Basically Emoji is installed in your app, and after you ran the first time, you can go to Settings -> International -> Keyboard and you add the Emoji Keyboard, so when you press that small globe key in the keyboard, it opens the keyboard.

Can anyone point me to a code example if it is possible.

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There's no such thing on (non-jailbroken) iOS devices. Basically Emoji is a trick... You don't need to install that to go to Settings>General>International>Keyboards>Emoji

— answered 9 months ago by Shannon Hicks
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  • I'm aware that there is a restriction to modifying the iOS keyboard, so I thought that Emoji did a workaround that by installing an international keyboard, so they basically only do what exactly, install new emoticons? what about the categories it displays?

    — commented 9 months ago by von Goethe

  • I don't believe the Emoji app "does" anything at all. Open up your iPhone simulator, and add the Emoji keyboard.

    — commented 9 months ago by Shannon Hicks

  • Damn, thanks for the info, I was told that there was a restriction about replacing Keyboards, which is why SwiftKey isn't available in iOS, so at the moment the only way to use 3rd keyboard apps is to create a full app and from there to export to SMS, face or Twitter, is that correct? Alternative Keyboards

    — commented 9 months ago by von Goethe

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