Re: iOS UI suggestions wanted - Date Picker
Re: iOS UI suggestions wanted - Date Picker
- Subject: Re: iOS UI suggestions wanted - Date Picker
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:25:00 -0400
Well, do a faux datepicker using a Table View and the gradient overlay to make it look like a datePicker, but one that you can customize a whole lot easier.
Yeah, you can't scroll the day/month/year separately, but you can scroll one set of items that represent a range of dates.
Lemmie cook up a quick sample for you. Will email offline.
On Apr 17, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Rick Aurbach wrote:
> Alex,
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> You have my attention, I don't really understand what you're suggesting. How would a gradient overlay to the selection-list UITableView aid the user in scrolling to a particular date or making a selection? Could you elaborate??
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> Rick Aurbach
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> On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> What about a UITableView with a gradient overlay that is shaded at the top and bottom?
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>> On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:35 AM, Rick Aurbach wrote:
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>>> In my iPad app, I have a number of tableviews in various places which act as selection lists. The user can scroll the list and select the item with a tap, of course. But since some of the lists can be lengthy, I also include navigation aids. In all but one of the lists, the items are alphabetized and the navigation aid is a UISearchBar (I could equally well have used a table index, but I've chosen a UISearchBar instead. I use "scroll to closest text match" logic and it works very well -- the user can usually scroll the list and make the desired selection by typing only one or two characters In most cases.)
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>>> However, for one of the lists, the table items are items which are sorted by date. The obvious navigation aid in this case is a UIDatePicker, but due to limited screen real estate, I'd rather not use it (since is is so big and can't be easily resized). So I am looking for alternatives.
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>>> One alternative is to put the UIDatePicker (or perhaps another date picker such as SRMonthPicker or OCCalendar or ??) in a popover. (Presumably, the popover would be triggered by tapping a button or tapping in a UISearchBar.) This is do-able but what I really want is something that is not a popover. Ideally, I'd like something that is permanently part of the view but is only 44 pixels high (like a UISearchBar). Yet it should be easy for users to select at least a year and a month (causing the tableview to scroll the appropriate date range on screen for easy selection).
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>>> I would be interested to hear from anyone who has encountered a similar situation and has implemented a solution which they find satisfactory.
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>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rick Aurbach
>>> Aurbach & Associates, Inc.
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