iPhone - Have the keyboard slide into view from the right like when editing a note in Contacts

Question

I\'m looking for a way to slide the keyboard into view from the right, like what happens in the Contacts application when you edit a note.

My problem is that when I

Answer 1

All you need to do is tell the text view in question to become the first responder in the viewDidLoad method of the view controller you're pushing onto the navigation stack:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    someTextView.becomeFirstResponder()
}

This works in iOS 8. The keyboard slides in from the right along with the view.