- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
NSLog(@”User touched”);
UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];

if ([textView isFirstResponder] && [touch view] != textView) {
NSLog(@”The textView is currently being edited, and the user touched outside the text view”);
[textView resignFirstResponder];
}
}

- First register for keyboradDidShow notification(in viewDidLoad):
- have a button show up right above the end of the keyboard when the keyboard is shown(implemented in the notification)
- add target to that button so that it discards the keyboard by sending the resignFirstResponder message to the text view.
- also remove the button from the super view in the target method and it looks like the button is showing up with the keyboard. cheers.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector (keyboardDidShow:) name: UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];

….
}

-(void) keyboardDidShow: (NSNotification *)notif
{
NSLog(@”keyboard did show”);
hideKeyboardButton = [UIButton buttonWithType: UIButtonTypeCustom];
hideKeyboardButton.frame = CGRectMake(250, 173, 70, 30);
[hideKeyboardButton setTitle:@"Cancel" forState: UIControlStateNormal];
[hideKeyboardButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"button.png"] forState: UIControlStateNormal];
[hideKeyboardButton addTarget: self action:@selector(hideKeyboard) forControlEvents: UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview: hideKeyboardButton];
}

-(void) hideKeyboard
{
[hideKeyboardButton removeFromSuperview];
[yourTextView resignFirstResponder];
}

Thanks again!

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- (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView{

NSLog(@”textView.text: %@”, textView.text);

}

Just be sure you have implemented the UITextViewDelegate protocol in your .h file.