Get Text Input WITHOUT UITextField Swift

Question

I'm making an app and I want the user to be able to input text without having them actually click on a UITextField (have it open after the game ends for a scoreboard), is there some way to do that?

Answer 1

Call the following in the viewDidLoad of scoreboard, or whatever the entry point of that view is.

yourTextField.becomeFirstResponder()

Answer 2

Yes, just:

<#your_text_field#>.becomeFirstResponder()

after the game ends.

This will produce the "same" effect as a tap on the UITextField. If this is on a new UIViewController you can place it on viewDidAppear, otherwise you can assume everything is already loaded and simply call it anywhere.