Customisation of UIDatePicker

Question

I want to customise a UIDatePicker. The user will be asked to select a

• year (1984-2100) and
• quarter (Q1-Q4).

An exact input of the date (with options day/month/year) is unfortunately not an option. An acceptable compromise would be only showing options for month and year.

• As far as I have researched, it is not possible to customise Apple's UIDatePicker in that way. Am I right?
• Which other options would I have to solve that problem?
• Are there any 3rd party options that solve this specific issue?

I am aware of the UIPickerView, but I hoped I could avoid hacking two pickers together.

Answer 1

Maybe this could help? It of course is built on top of UIPickerView, as there really is no way of modifying the UIDatePicker to hide days.

https://github.com/rolandleth/LTHMonthYearPickerView

You also could customize it very easily by changing the month numbering and names in the LTHMonthYearPickerView.m file.

Answer 2

You are correct, you can't use UIDatePicker. Use a UIPickerView with two components, one for the year and one for the quarter.