An auto growing text input bar for messaging apps. Written in Swift.
ALTextInputBar is designed to solve a few issues that folks usually encounter when building messaging apps.

• Simple to use and configure
• Automatic resizing based on content
• Interactive dismiss gesture support

This project requires Xcode 8.0 to run and compiles with swift 3.0

ALTextInputBar is available on CocoaPods. Add the following to your Podfile:

pod 'ALTextInputBar'

This is the minimum configuration required to attach an input bar to the keyboard.

class ViewController: UIViewController { let textInputBar = ALTextInputBar() // The magic sauce // This is how we attach the input bar to the keyboard override var inputAccessoryView: UIView? { get { return textInputBar } } // Another ingredient in the magic sauce override var canBecomeFirstResponder: Bool { return true } }

ALTextInputBar is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.