becomeFirstResponder not working in iOS 8

Question

I am using UITextField\'s method becomeFirstResponder to show the keyboard. This is working in iOS 7. But in iOS 8 this method doesn\'t show the keyboard.

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Answer 1

For iOS 9.3, the following worked for me:

 private var searchTextFieldShouldReturn = false

    override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
            super.viewWillAppear(animated)

            self.searchTextFieldShouldReturn = false
            self.searchTextField.becomeFirstResponder()
        }
    override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

        self.searchTextFieldShouldReturn = true
        self.searchTextField.resignFirstResponder()
    }

    func textFieldShouldReturn(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
            self.searchTextFieldShouldReturn = true
            textField.resignFirstResponder()

            return true
        }

    func textFieldShouldEndEditing(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {

            return self.searchTextFieldShouldReturn
        }

So You need to make sure You also implement the textFieldShouldEndEditing delegate.