FxDatePicker

A simple and customizable Date Picker that utilizes UIPickerView. Written in Swift.

Installation

Add the source file (FxDatePicker.swift) into your project.

Usage

I tried to make the usage as simple as possible. So, here is how to use it.

Storyboard

Create a View in the storyboard, go to identity inspector, and change the class name to FxDatePicker. That's it!

TextField InputView

Create FxDatePicker object and assign it to the inputView:

var datePicker = FxDatePicker();
textField.inputView = datePicker;

Customizations

In order to change the default font and the text color change the font and textColor properties, respectively:

datePicker.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor();
datePicker.font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue", size: 14.0);

There is also support for changing font for the selected row. The properties are selectedFont and selectedTextColor:

datePicker.selectedTextColor = UIColor.redColor();
datePicker.selectedFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold", 16.0);

When assigning the any view into input view of a text field, the text field overrides the backgroundColor property of the view. Therefore, I added a bgColor property for this case:

datePicker.bgColor = UIColor.blackColor();

For changing picker mode from date to time, change the mode property to Time:

datePicker.mode = FxDatePickerMode.Time

Available Enumerations (more coming soon):

FxDatePickerMode {
	case Date
	case Time
}

The AM/PM part of the date picker is based on the locale property of the date picker. If you need to force the locale, change the locale property like below:

datePicker.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifer: "en_US_POSIX");

The locale is very partially supported in this version but over time I will adapt localization more and more until the date picker fully supports it.

Delegate

There is only one function in the delegate for this class dateSelected. This event is triggered when a valid date is selected in the picker. The function signature is as the follows:

func dateSelected(datePicker: FxDatePicker!, date : NSDate!);

First argument is the date picker that the event is triggered from; and the second function is the date that is currently active/selected. To use the delegate method, add FxDatePickerDelegate to your class and assign your class to the delegate property:

class Controller : UIViewController, FxDatePickerDelegate {

	override func viewDidLoad() {
		var datePicker = FxDatePicker();
		datePicker.bgColor = UIColor.blackColor();

		datePicker.font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue", size: 14.0);
		datePicker.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor();
		datePicker.selectedTextColor = UIColor.redColor();
		datePicker.selectedFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold", 16.0);

		datePicker.delegate = self;

		textField.inputView = datePicker;
	}
	
	func dateSelected(datePicker: FxDatePicker!, date: NSDate!) {
		print(date);
	}
	
}

UPDATE

• [01/19] Lots of design changes - Rewrote the codebase to be more clean, robust, and modular. Added Time Picker. For future releases I will be adopting localization more and more; eventually the library will have a full localization support.
• [10/30] Code refactored to work with Swift 2.0. Added customizations for selected row and font colors.

Future Plans (in order)

• Add Time Picker
• More customizations: Selected row font and colors
• Add Date and Time Picker together
• Date boundaries

Author

Gasim Gasimzada

License

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