I've recently started using the ios charts library and am having trouble finding information on how to manipulate the x-axis with the swift3 update.
What I want to do is label the x-axis with time values, e.g. 2:03:00, 2:03:01, 2:03:02, etc. In the tutorials I find online, this seems to be very easy; many of them use months of the year as the x-axis label.
However, in the swift3 update, charts now initializes values with x and y values, and I am not sure how to use labels in this version of the library. Does anyone know how to create labels in charts with swift3?
Proper Solution for X-Axis String labels in Swift 3+
let months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]
barChartView.xAxis.valueFormatter = IndexAxisValueFormatter(values:months)
barChartView.xAxis.granularity = 1
Create a class like this:
import Foundation
import Charts
@objc(BarChartFormatter)
class ChartFormatter:NSObject,IAxisValueFormatter{
var months: [String]! = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]
func stringForValue(_ value: Double, axis: AxisBase?) -> String {
return months[Int(value)]
}
}
Set the x-Axis like this:
let xAxis=XAxis()
let chartFormmater=ChartFormatter()
for i in index{
chartFormmater.stringForValue(Double(i), axis: xAxis)
}
xAxis.valueFormatter=chartFormmater
chartView.xAxis.valueFormatter=xAxis.valueFormatter
I propose to use more flexible and pretty solution. You should have a formatter class like this:
final class MonthNameFormater: NSObject, IAxisValueFormatter {
func stringForValue( _ value: Double, axis _: AxisBase?) -> String {
return Calendar.current.shortMonthSymbols[Int(value)]
}
}
Set up this type to your barChartView
:
barChartView.xAxis.valueFormatter = MonthNameFormater()
barChartView.xAxis.granularity = 1.0
As a result you will have: Jan, Feb, ..., Dec
In addition if you want to change presentation kind you should change shortMonthSymbols with some other: monthSymbols, veryShortMonthSymbols, standaloneMonthSymbols