How to dismiss keyboard iOS programmatically when pressing return

I created a UITextField programmatically making the UITextField a property of the viewController. I need to dismiss the keyboard with the return and the touch on the screen. I was able to get the screen touch to dismiss, but pressing return is not working.

I've seen how to do it with storyboards and by allocating and initializing the UITextField object directly without creating it as a property. Possible to do?

.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface ViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>

@property (strong, atomic) UITextField *username;

@end

.m

#import "ViewController.h"

@interface ViewController ()

@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    
    self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    self.username = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 25, 80, 20)];
    self.username.placeholder = @"Enter your username";
    self.username.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.username.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
    if (self.username.placeholder != nil) {
        self.username.clearsOnBeginEditing = NO;
    }
    _username.delegate = self; 
    
    [self.view addSubview:self.username];
    [_username resignFirstResponder];
    
}

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
    NSLog(@"touchesBegan:withEvent:");
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

@end

The simple way is to connect the delegate of UITextField to self (self.mytestField.delegate = self) and dismiss the keyboard in the method textFieldShouldReturn using [textField resignFirstResponder];

Another way to dismiss the keyboard is the following:

Objective-C

[self.view endEditing:YES];

Swift:

self.view.endEditing(true)

Put [self.view endEditing:YES]; where you would like to dismiss the keyboard (Button event, Touch event, etc.).

Add a delegate method of UITextField like this:

@interface MyController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>

And set your textField.delegate = self; then also add two delegate methods of UITextField

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{   
    return YES;
}

// It is important for you to hide the keyboard
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

simply use this in swift to dismiss keyboard:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().sendAction("resignFirstResponder", to:nil, from:nil, forEvent:nil)

Swift 3

UIApplication.shared.sendAction(#selector(UIResponder.resign‌​FirstResponder), to: nil, from: nil, for: nil)