TextField on iOS without using UIKit?

I'm trying to make my project easier to develop cross platform.

So the project is on iOS at the moment.
Is there a way to have a text field that works without the UIKit textfield?

I'm trying to use ofxUIUtils by @DomAmato
The textfield responds to touch, but i can't use it to input any text from the keyboard

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Miles