Get the current first responder without using a private API

Question

I submitted my app a little over a week ago and got the dreaded rejection email today. It tells me that my app cannot be accepted because I\'m using a non-public API; specif

Answer 1

It's not pretty, but the way I resign the firstResponder when I don't know what that the responder is:

Create an UITextField, either in IB or programmatically. Make it Hidden. Link it up to your code if you made it in IB.

Then, when you want to dismiss the keyboard, you switch the responder to the invisible text field, and immediately resign it:

    [self.invisibleField becomeFirstResponder];
    [self.invisibleField resignFirstResponder];