iOS Tutorial: Date Picker in a UITextField

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In this tutorial we will learn how to add a Date Picker also known as a UIDatePicker to a UITextField as the input view. We will learn how to invoke the Date Picker and make a date selection as well learn how to format the date. We will also learn how we can use a UITapGestureRecognizer to detect when a tap is selected to automatically dismiss the Date Picker. This tutorial is in Swift 4 using Xcode 9.

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[TinaDitteThomsen]

Clean, short, easy. This was amazing, thank you!

[abrahamlincoln]

Love the way you dig into the UIKit Base classes and show what's available 👍

[zippytoad]

Very clearly explained. I like how you went into the underlying classes to teach the bigger picture. Thanks.

[flotsamjetsam]

This was one of the best tutorials of its kind I've seen - really educational and thorough while simultaneously to the point and quick. Thank you - very well done! I'll be back for more!

[iryna]

I find your tutorials very helpful! I really like that you don't make them too basic and also that you actually explain things. Thank you.

[stillboblemarin]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot for sharing! It helped me a lot.
I had an issue though when picking a day or month or year; it would dismiss the DatePicker straight away.
Couldn't choose the full date all at once. Not great in terms of user experience 😉
💡To fix that I removed the "view.endEditing(true)" from the dateChanged function.
(I'm using Xcode 11.3)

[AkankshaSingh-ikcp]

please tell me how to open datepicker on text field input view in SwiftUI ios 13?

[saalikahmed]

im having trouble converting this to a date and time picker? what parts would i alter?

[TF-fvih]

the inputTextfield.inputView = datePicker line of code doesn't work, how can I fix it?
-The error message that shows up is Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value.

[oswaldogallo]

Hi, a very helpful video, question: What if i want to have two date pickers in the same view?

[ZHANEKA]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I'm doing similar app for a job interview and it helped me a lot! Can you please prompt me how to get that textField value, selected by pickerView to pass to another VC? Can't understand what should I do :(

[akaaadikhan]

thanks a lot I figured out what I needed to do

[limsteven]

i would suggest to remove the code on line 32 where this line auto dismiss the datepicker whenever the date changed (i've change the year, but when i wanted to change the month, it dismiss ) .

[csmaca]

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[ashiquepuliyakkode]

Thanks a Lot.. Tutorial is really helpful..you have done a great work.. Cheers!!

[mvijay]

how did change the UIDatepicker's date format? Because it only shows mm/dd/yyyy format only but i want to change the dd/mm/yyyy format of date in UIDatepicker. Please help to change.

[ramymeng]

I have tapped the same code as he did, but I have an error saying my view controller is not initialized? What should I do? Thank you very much in advance!!

[kidsrollcallaustralia]

Your tutorials have helped me fix code that was poor, in my app, THANK YOU

[elturko]

Hello. Thank you for you tutorial!
But if I use "TouchUpOutside" instead of "value changed", then the app does not change the date. Have I to implement anything else at "TouchUpOutside" function? Please help...thanks

[kidsrollcallaustralia]

GREAT TUTORIAL !
QUESTION : how could you use UIDatePicker to set up a personal calendar, like a diary where you put notes for different dates ?