iOS 8 3rd party keyboards don't register javascript/jQuery keyup, keypress, keydown etc

Question

When using a 3rd party keyboard like Swiftkey javascript events like keypress don\'t register. For example Google maps autocomplete won\'t work https://developers.google.com/map

Answer 1

You can just manually fire keypress events.

$textBox = $('#text_box') // We don't want to search the dom more than we have to.
setInterval(function(){
    $textBox.trigger('keypress')
}, 500)

This is definitely a messy solution, but it should get autocomplete to work, as well as other handlers that wait for keypresses.