"Make sure every task can be completed using just a keyboard" on iOS

[KaneCheshire]

Are there any examples of how (or indeed, where) Apple support this on iOS? As far as I know there's no built-in way to support navigating content with just a keyboard without some extra work from the developers, so wondering how this is a requirement that Apple handle, or how we're expected to handle it natively.

There are ways to do it by writing lots of custom code similar to this: https://gist.github.com/adamyanalunas/b1ce3af40843a356dc3cade6e6ab6a21

But as far as I can see it's not natively support out-the-box with a couple of lines of code like most other examples we've got so far.

Note also that gist is just for a UITableView, this doesn't cover UICollectionView or any other type of view that is on screen, so extra work would be needed to support those, as well as support traversing from a table to another element, like a tab bar.

I feel like this is a problem that hasn't yet been solved because it's not part of iOS?

[jfhector]

I've always wondered that. I don't know much about it. It's be great to find out / ask specialists.

So, what happens if I connect a keyboard to my iPhone: can I now use the tab key and the enter key to navigate through content and use functionalities?

[KaneCheshire]

I've never tried, we should give it a go. Do you use a wireless keyboard at TAB? I've always used the built in one

[KaneCheshire]

I suppose we should also check how Android behaves too while we're at it!