UIDatePicker select Month and Year

Question

I need a UIDatePicker for selecting Month and Year only. I checked the class reference documents. Looks like UIDatePicker is a UIView.

Answer 1

I'm using a simple UIPickerView with 2 components (months and years).

And calling the UIPickerViewDelegate with every row selection:

- (void)pickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView didSelectRow:(NSInteger)row inComponent:(NSInteger)component
{
    //Today year and month
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyy"];
    int year = [[dateFormat stringFromDate:[NSDate date]] intValue];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM"];
    int month = [[dateFormat stringFromDate:[NSDate date]] intValue] - 1;

    //picker year and month
    int selectedYear = [[self.yearsArray objectAtIndex:[pickerView selectedRowInComponent:1]] intValue];
    int selectedMonth = [pickerView selectedRowInComponent:0];

    // if month in the past, change the month
    if (year == selectedYear && selectedMonth < month)
    {
        [pickerView selectRow:month inComponent:0 animated:YES];
    }
}