Get keyboard size on iOS 8 not working with external keyboard

Question

Been looking at several SO post now, but none seem to help me. Just want a UITableViews bottom constraint to be set so that the keyboard never is on top of the

Answer 1

You can detect if external keyboard is connected and and set keyboard's height to 0 by doing something like that.

Objective-C version:

CGRect finalKeyboardFrame = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
finalKeyboardFrame = [self convertRect:finalKeyboardFrame fromView:self.window];

NSLog(@"origin.y: %f", finalKeyboardFrame.origin.y);

Shows the y coordinate properly depending if external keyboard is connected or not:

origin.y: 258.000000 (not connected)

origin.y: 474.000000 (connected)