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

Just in case others have the same issue as me:

I had an IBOutlet connected to my UITextField. Erroneously I was initializing this in my viewDidLoad method. That is, [[textField alloc] init];. I removed this and everything worked again.