Please make the coding keyboard from the Swift Playgrounds iPad app available to all developers

Originator:lextar
Number:rdar://26861830 Date Originated:17-Jun-2016 04:33 PM
Status:Duplicate of 26822155 (Open) Resolved:
Product:iOS SDK Product Version:iOS 10.0 Beta 1
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:
 
Summary:
The Swift Playgrounds app in iOS 10 uses a special coding keyboard on 9.7“ iPads. I’ve attached a screenshot. Please make this coding keyboard available to third party developers through the iOS SDK.

Maybe you could add a new UIKeyboardType enum value to return from the keyboardType method of UITextInputTraits. 

There are many code editor apps like my own app Textastic whose users could benefit from such a keyboard.

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit a text file in a third party code editor app.

Expected Results:
The users expects to be able to use the same coding keyboard as in the Swift Playgrounds app.

Actual Results:
Instead, the default keyboard is shown.

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