How to detect delete key on an UITextField in iOS 8?

Question

I have subclassed UITextField and implemented the UIKeyInput protocol\'s deleteBackward method to detect backspace being pressed. This works fine on iOS 7 but not on iOS 8.<

Answer 1

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
   const char * _char = [string cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
   int isBackSpace = strcmp(_char, "\b");

   if (isBackSpace == -8) {
     NSLog(@"Backspace was pressed");
   }

return YES;

}

Basically this method detects which button you are pressing (or have just pressed). This input comes in as an NSString. We convert this NSString to a C char type and then compare it to the traditional backspace character (\b). Then if this strcmp is equal to -8, we can detect it as a backspace.