Change UIPickerView background

Question

I want to change the border color of a UIPickerView. I do not see a tint property for the UIPickerView. Is there any way this could be done? Or a workaround?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do the following:

set the picker view background colour by wizard or by code as follow:

Picker1.backgroundColor = [UIColor someColor];// clearColor for transparent

Set alpha value for the picker view subviews numbered 0, 1 and 3. (Don't know why there is subview 2 thought). Do it by code after the first load data for the picker view as follow (it will throw an exception if you do this in the DidViewLoad).

[(UIView*)[[Picker1 subviews] objectAtIndex:0] setAlpha:someValue];// 0.0f for transparent
[(UIView*)[[Picker1 subviews] objectAtIndex:1] setAlpha:someValue];
[(UIView*)[[Picker1 subviews] objectAtIndex:3] setAlpha:someValue];

Don't forget to clear background color for the label you are sending to the picker view in the viewForRow method.

lbl.backgroundColor = [UIColor someColor];// could be clearColor