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Sending Stickers via SMS in iOS8

We're looking to build on the custom keyboard framework in iOS8 by having a keyboard which is capable of sending stickers.

Very very similar to this: http://stickerboard.me/

We have an app developer on our team who (is part correct) in saying that the keyboard for use inside SMS and similar needs to have a keyboard containing unicode characters, however the images that we have got (similar to those in stickerboard.me) are not standard unicode characters.

My questions are:

  1. Is it possible to have a custom keyboard in iOS8 which allows stickers to be added to system-wide messages (native SMS, facebook, what's app, everywhere)?
  2. If it's not possible, is it possible to have images that are not standard unicode characters converted to unicode somehow and displayed correctly on both the sender and recipients phone?

Thanks.

Solution

  • No (November 2014).

    "provide text, in the form of an unattributed NSString object, at the text insertion point of the current text input object."

    https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html