What is the best way to enter numeric values with decimal points?

Question

In my app users need to be able to enter numeric values with decimal places. The iPhone doesn\'t provides a keyboard that\'s specific for this purpose - only a number pad an

Answer 1

I think it would be good to point out that as of iOS 4.1 you can use the new UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad.

So now you just have to:

myTextField.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad;