Need Small iOS Keyboard
You find your iPhone or iPad on-screen keyboard covers much of your app, you need a small iOS keyboard for your iPhone & iPad. First you search “How to Resize iPhone Keyboard” and “How To Make iPhone Keyboard Smaller” and find nothing useful. Here you find a solution to make iOS keyboard 25% of normal size. Finally, hide iOS keyboard 100% (invisible iOS keyboard) and still post data from RFID, NFC, Barcode, scales, sensors, etc.
SerialMagic Keys iOS Connects Many Wireless Devices Simultaneously
First step to have small iOS keyboard on iPhone-iPad, install SerialMagic Keys from Appstore. Second, add SerialMagic Keys 3rd party keyboard to iOS as shown in this post. Third, make SerialMagic Keys the active keyboard and connect to your RFID-NFC reader, barcode scanner, scale, etc. Additionally know SerialMagic Keys connects to multiple devices simultaneously, e.g. connect RFID reader, scale, caliper, etc.
Finally we connect Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF Tag Reader, Scanfob® 6000 2D barcode scanner, and a Ohaus Ranger 3000 scale. Ranger 3000 is connected using the BlueSnap M6A wireless RS-232 dongle.
SerialMagic Keys | 75% Smaller iOS Keyboard
Make small iOS keyboard on iPhone-iPad as follows. First, make SerialMagic Keys the active iOS keyboard as shown in this post then connect your RFID-NFC reader, barcode scanner, scale, etc. Second, here multiple wireless devices are connected: idChamp® NF4x Smartcard Badge Reader, Scanfob® 6000 2D barcode scanner, and a Ohaus Ranger 3000 scale via BlueSnap M6A. Next, make a small iOS keyboard by tapping the SerialMagic Keys minimize button.
Finally see the small iOS keyboard, with increased working space for the iOS app. Note: restore normal iOS keyboard size by tapping Minimize again.
Hide iPhone-iPad Keyboard | 100% Smaller
Tap the SerialMagic Keys Wireless connection button toggles view between standard keyboard, and state of wireless devices.
Now make the iPhone-iPad keyboard invisible (100% smaller) using the SerialMagic Keys Settings option “Hidden keyboard”.
Invisible iPhone-iPad Keyboard | Post Data Wirelessly
Finally, tap your app to show keyboard, wireless devices are connected and usable, with the invisible keyboard. First you see the Scanfob® 6000 2D barcode scanner post the QR Code data (1). Second you see the Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF reader post UHF tag readings (2). Third you see data posted from the Ranger 3000 scale (3).
