iOS: Try to enable keyboard support

[ChrisNZL]

Unity does not have built-in keyboard support on iOS (apart from the native input field for entering text).

Maybe one day.

Thread to watch:

• Mouse and Keyboard support for iOS

Unity issue tracker:

• KEYBOARD INPUT IS NOT WORKING WHEN USING AN EXTERNAL KEYBOARD IN IOS 15

Asset Store plugins to try:

• Magic & Smart Keyboard support for iPad & iPhone
• iOS External Input

[ChrisNZL]

Notes:

• Trying Tallowmere 2 v0.3.6a + Unity 2021.3.9f1 + iOS 15.7 (iPad) + Logitech K380 keyboard, without any fancy plugins:

  • Keyboard input is interpreted, but is very delayed, or held too long. Things are unplayable, really.

• When trying out the iOS External Input plugin, the plugin seems to cause a hard crash; I've emailed the developer.

[ChrisNZL]

Another request for keyboard support on iOS.

I had made some progress with the "iOS External Input" plugin (plugin's developer gave me a fix to fix the crash).

But, there was an issue with the plugin no longer working after Unity's text input prompt was used, which is quite a deal-breaker.

Source code is available, but writing iOS plugins is not my expertise. Hope Unity will just implement keyboard support properly at some point...

And the other "Magic & Smart Keyboard support for iPad & iPhone" plugin's page says they are aware of things not working with latest iOS, so I'm not pursuing that for now either.

[ChrisNZL]

This hasn't gone anywhere. Unity still doesn't support keyboard input on iOS.

Large effort to create my own iOS plugin.

Not worth pursuing right now.