It is possible to show keyboard without using UITextField and UITextView iphone app?

Question

I am working in iPhone messaging based app.

I want to show keyboard with keyboard inputAccessoryView in keyboard without using UITextView and

Answer 1

See the documentation for doing that here:

Simple Text Input

All you need to do is have your view implement UIKeyInput and call [inputView becomeFirstResponder] when the view is touched. Your view also needs to implement canBecomeFirstResponder and return YES.

Sample code from the iOS documentation which does this.