Available Resources for iOS

I'll be adding to this as I go along.

Limitations

Some articles discussing the limitations of keyboards on iOS.

Keyboards available on Github

Keyboards that work well on iPhone. You can check out their source code on Github.

I'll be adding to this as I go along.

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