How to change keyboard background color in iOS?

Question

I would like to know how to change the keyboard background color programmatically in iOS? The background is normally grey but I have already seen black background (behind le

Answer 1

In iOS 7, UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert is deprecated, so use this instead:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceDark;

If you need to support both earlier iOSes and iOS 7, and you've created the necessary macros (per https://stackoverflow.com/a/5337804/588253), you can use this:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(@"7.0") ? UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert : UIKeyboardAppearanceDark);