--- title: Create your keyboard for App theme: Customizing Keyboard... description: A developer walks through building a custom number pad keyboard in SwiftUI for an iOS app, replacing the system keyboard via UITextField's inputView property.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/create-your-keyboard-for-app-theme-customizing-keyboard-in-swiftui-9x2zf2yf5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Create your keyboard for App theme: Customizing Keyboard in SwiftUI | daily.dev og:description: A developer walks through building a custom number pad keyboard in SwiftUI for an iOS app, replacing the system keyboard via UITextField's inputView property.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/create-your-keyboard-for-app-theme-customizing-keyboard-in-swiftui-9x2zf2yf5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9X2Zf2YF5.png og:image:alt: Create your keyboard for App theme: Customizing Keyboard in SwiftUI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create your keyboard for App theme: Customizing Keyboard in SwiftUI **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer walks through building a custom number pad keyboard in SwiftUI for an iOS app, replacing the system keyboard via UITextField's inputView property. The post covers finding the underlying UITextField in SwiftUI's view hierarchy using UIViewRepresentable, syncing SwiftUI bindings via editingChanged events, sizing the keyboard with autoresizingMask, embedding a SwiftUI view inside UIKit using UIHostingController, and handling edge cases like cursor visibility, clipboard menu removal, gesture disabling, remote keyboard input blocking, and multi-TextField support. Security motivations for custom keyboards (keylogger prevention, clipboard attack prevention, third-party keyboard blocking) are also discussed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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