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Grant J
Grant J

Reputation: 1065

iOS - How to allow user to select from a range of numbers?

What's the besy way to allow a user to select a number on iOS? Basically I have a "form" that allows users to set up a game. One of the options requires them to specify the number of teams.

My first idea was to use a slider, but how would I lay this out? The following doesn't seem very intuitive:

Select number of teams: 5
C=====O=================D

But then again, this doesn't look very good either:

Select number of teams:
C========O==========D 5

My second idea was to create a button that when pressed, shows the user a modal view with a UIPickerview but then this seems a bit over the top just to select a number.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1410

Answers (2)

Bo.
Bo.

Reputation: 2541

Well if you have only few choices to select from you might want to use a few buttons with one selected showing different color (and text would indicate value of selection).

Also alternative is to have two buttons +/- and text box which would increment and decrement number of teams.

And finally you can use one of the custom controls:

Upvotes: 1

Sebastian Wramba
Sebastian Wramba

Reputation: 10127

Both methods are fine. A slider works well, if you don't have a exhausting range of numbers to select from, since that could make the slider a little unprecise. I'd go for your second layout and put the number next to the slider and the label above.

However, a slider can only select one number - in your question title you are referring to "select a range of numbers". That is quite a difference. If you need a slider to select a range (like 3 to 5), a two-way slider custom component would be necessary.

Upvotes: 1

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