iOS Swift converting calendar component int month to medium style string month

Question

I want to display calendar in this format

to the user. One option is to

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter has monthSymbols, shortMonthSymbols and veryShortSymbols properties.

So try this:

let dateFormatter: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

let months = dateFormatter.shortMonthSymbols
let monthSymbol = months[month-1] as! String // month - from your date components

println(monthSymbol)