RMDateSelectionViewController

This is an iOS control for selecting a date using UIDatePicker in a UIActionSheet like fashion

Screenshots

Portrait

Landscape

Black version

Demo Project

If you want to run the demo project you first need to run pod install to install the dependencies of RMDateSelectionViewController.

Installation (CocoaPods)

platform :ios, '8.0'
pod "RMDateSelectionViewController", "~> 2.0.1"

Usage

Basic

1. Import RMDateSelectionViewController.h in your view controller

   #import "RMDateSelectionViewController.h"

2. Create a date selection view controller, set select and cancel block and present the view controller

   - (IBAction)openDateSelectionController:(id)sender {
   	//Create select action
       RMAction *selectAction = [RMAction actionWithTitle:@"Select" style:RMActionStyleDone andHandler:^(RMActionController *controller) {
           NSLog(@"Successfully selected date: %@", ((UIDatePicker *)controller.contentView).date);
       }];
       
       //Create cancel action
       RMAction *cancelAction = [RMAction actionWithTitle:@"Cancel" style:RMActionStyleCancel andHandler:^(RMActionController *controller) {
           NSLog(@"Date selection was canceled");
       }];
       
       //Create date selection view controller
       RMDateSelectionViewController *dateSelectionController = [RMDateSelectionViewController actionControllerWithStyle:style selectAction:selectAction andCancelAction:cancelAction];
       dateSelectionController.title = @"Test";
       dateSelectionController.message = @"This is a test message.\nPlease choose a date and press 'Select' or 'Cancel'.";
       
       //Now just present the date selection controller using the standard iOS presentation method
       [self presentViewController:dateSelectionController animated:YES completion:nil];
   }

Advanced

Accessing the Date Picker

Every RMDateSelectionViewController has a property datePicker. With this property you have total control over the UIDatePicker that is shown on the screen.

Presentation Style

Additionally, you can use the property modalPresentationStyle to control how the date selection controller is shown. By default, it is set to UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext. But on the iPad you could use UIModalPresentationPopover to present the date selection controller within a popover. See the following example on how this works:

- (IBAction)openDateSelectionController:(id)sender {
	//Create select and cancel action
	...

	RMDateSelectionViewController *dateSelectionVC = [RMDateSelectionViewController actionControllerWithStyle:style selectAction:selectAction andCancelAction:cancelAction];

	//On the iPad we want to show the date selection view controller within a popover.
    if([UIDevice currentDevice].userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
        //First we set the modal presentation style to the popover style
        dateSelectionVC.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationPopover;
        
        //Then we tell the popover presentation controller, where the popover should appear
        dateSelectionVC.popoverPresentationController.sourceView = self.view;
        dateSelectionVC.popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(...);
    }

	//Now just present the date selection controller using the standard iOS presentation method
	[self presentViewController:dateSelectionVC animated:YES completion:nil];
}

Adding Additional Buttons

You can add an arbitrary number of custom buttons to a RMDateSelectionViewController. Each button has it's own block that is executed when tapping the button. See the following example on how to add buttons.

- (IBAction)openDateSelectionController:(id)sender {
	//Create select action
    ...
    
    //Create date selection view controller
    RMDateSelectionViewController *dateSelectionController = [RMDateSelectionViewController actionControllerWithStyle:style selectAction:selectAction andCancelAction:cancelAction];
    
    //Create now action and add it to date selection view controller
    RMAction *nowAction = [RMAction actionWithTitle:@"Now" style:RMActionStyleAdditional andHandler:^(RMActionController *controller) {
        ((UIDatePicker *)controller.contentView).date = [NSDate date];
        NSLog(@"Now button tapped");
    }];
    nowAction.dismissesActionController = NO;
    
    [dateSelectionController addAction:nowAction];
    
    //Now just present the date selection controller using the standard iOS presentation method
    [self presentViewController:dateSelectionController animated:YES completion:nil];
}

Others

RMDateSelectionViewController does not use APIs that are only available for applications. Therefore, it can be used in both your main application and an action extension showing UI.

Documentation

There is an additional documentation available provided by the CocoaPods team. Take a look at cocoadocs.org.

Requirements

Compile Time	Runtime
Xcode 6	iOS 8
iOS 8 SDK
ARC

Note: ARC can be turned on and off on a per file basis.

Version 1.5.0 and above of RMDateSelectionViewController use custom transitions for presenting the date selection controller. Custom transitions are a new feature introduced by Apple in iOS 7. Unfortunately, custom transitions are totally broken in landscape mode on iOS 7. This issue has been fixed with iOS 8. So if your application supports landscape mode (even on iPad), version 1.5.0 and above of this control require iOS 8. Otherwise, iOS 7 should be fine. In particular, iOS 7 is fine for version 1.4.3 and below.

Apps using this control

Using this control in your app or know anyone who does?

Feel free to add the app to this list: Apps using RMDateSelectionViewController

Further Info

If you want to show an UIPickerView instead of an UIDatePicker, you may take a look at my other control called RMPickerViewController.

If you want to show any other control you may want to take a look at RMActionController.

##Credits Code contributions:

• AnthonyMDev
  • Cancel delegate method should be optional
• Digeon Benjamin
  • Delegate method when now button is pressed
  • Cancel delegate method is called when background view is tapped
• Denis Andrasec
  • Bugfixes
• Robin Franssen
  • Block support
• Scott Chou
  • Images for cancel and select button
• steveoleary
  • Bugfixes

Localizations:

• Vincent Xue (Chinese)
• Alex Studnička (Czech)
• Robin Franssen (Dutch)
• tobiasgr (Danish)
• Thomas Besnehard (French)
• Heberti Almeida (Portuguese)
• Anton Rusanov (Russian)
• Pedro Ventura (Spanish)
• Aron Manucheri (Swedish)
• Vinh Nguyen (Vietnamese)

I want to thank everyone who has contributed code and/or time to this project!

License (MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Roland Moers

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