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iosxamarin.iosxamarinuidatepickeruiappearance
user686483
user686483

Reputation: 1506

Change the style of a date picker

I was wondering how I can change the style of a montouch datepicker? I've managed to customise the borders around the picker itself, but I'm not sure how to customise the picker.

Any help is appreciated.

Sean

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6092

Answers (3)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 3804

To change the color use the following in viewDidLoad() as one example:

 yourPicker.setValue(UIColor.blueColor(), for Key: "textColor")

On a side note it still amazes me that the default blue color isn't the same light blue that's pretty standard on apple devices.

Upvotes: 0

Stephane Delcroix
Stephane Delcroix

Reputation: 16232

The apple doc says it all:

Appearance of Date Pickers:

You cannot customize the appearance of date pickers.

Upvotes: 3

Jason Hartley
Jason Hartley

Reputation: 2509

Like most native iOS controls, Apple is very restrictive about customization and will not allow you to modify many of their properties. Apple did this deliberately to give a consistent look-and-feel to all apps, among other reasons.

To wit, observe how few properties there are for UIKit.UIDatePicker: http://iosapi.xamarin.com/?link=T%3aMonoTouch.UIKit.UIDatePicker%2fP

If you want a highly-customized date picker, you will need to roll your own.

Upvotes: 1

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