Change UIDatePicker font color?

Question

All I want to do is change the font color of the UIDatePicker. I've researched other questions but they're all involving changing other properties and customizing the entire look. All I want to do is just change the font color from black to white. I find it hard to believe that I can't do such a seemingly simple task. And why wouldn't the tint color affect it? Does it even do anything?

Answer 1

According to Apple's UIKit User Interface Catalog, developers are not allowed to customize date pickers.

I've seen other StackOverflow answers for similar questions that suggest making a fake UIDatePicker using UIPickerView and customizing that.

I also found an open source date picker on GitHub (at https://github.com/mwermuth/MWDatePicker ) that might help a bit. It allows for different background and selector styles, but not a different font or font attributes.... yet.

Answer 2

As alternative to @Jeremiah answer, you can use this:

datePicker.setValue(UIColor.redColor(), forKey: "textColor")
datePicker.sendAction("setHighlightsToday:", to: nil, forEvent: nil)
datePicker.setDate(NSDate(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: 0), animated: false)

it will remove Today (you will see current date), but it will be with right color.

Possible troubles: if you change color dynamically, I didn't find a way to reload date picker. So, the user will see previous color and only after scroll, color will changed to a new one. -> Solved, by last string. Looks like Voodoo, but it works...

This answer suitable for Swift 2.1