How to disable keyboard appearing when hitting on a text field , iOS?

Question

I have a text field , and i need when the user presses it to show a custom picker.

The picker is shown fine , but the problem is that the keyboard appears on the bottom

Answer 1

Use the textField Delegate,

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
 textField=nil;
 return NO;
}