dopernicus

This is something we haven't explored enough yet, but would be awesome to get working since it would allow us to support all UITextInputTraits and get rid of the accessory bar. We had a simple PoC, but I seem to recall there being some weird edge cases.

Definitely worth looking into more though!

Just to clarify, this is not an Ionic-specific issue: It's a Cordova plugin maintained by Ionic, so it will affect all apps using the plugin, including Meteor-Cordova and PhoneGap apps. The fix is the same for everyone: update the plugin!

It's installed by default on all Ionic apps, so it's safe to say a majority of Ionic apps will be affected by it.

Just wanted to add - since we don't expect there to be a public API for this, even if we do find a solution that doesn't get auto-rejected, we'll be much more up front about our use of private APIs so people are aware of the risks of something like this happening at some point.

Hey all, author of the plugin for Ionic here. What a way to start a Friday morning!

So this was apparently a ticking time bomb, since we were directly using the name "UIWebBrowserView" to override that method at runtime, which is trivially found by Apple.

For anyone asking, "Why not use public APIs?", the answer is: because there are none for removing the keyboard accessory bar in a web view. At least not when the plugin was written, and as far as I know, that is still the case.

For hybrid apps, removing the keyboard accessory bar to look like native is fairly common practice. At the time the code was "written" (I'll use that term loosely), I didn't know much about Objective C and went with what worked. And it has worked, for the past couple of years, until today.

For the time being, I've removed the private API use until we find a solution that doesn't get automatically rejected (by not using the name of a private API directly, for example).

Thanks to everyone who brought this to our attention, and sorry for the headache!