I have a nice clean UI within a table view which has a few text fields for the user to fill out. One of the fields is for the user\'s birthday.
I\'d like to have it so t
Regarding animation, take a look at DateCell sample application - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/DateCell/Introduction/Intro.html
And in any case, the proper way to do this is set UITextField's inputView to show the picker instead of the keyboard. That's what it's meant to do. More on that here: How can I present a picker view just like the keyboard does?
Cheers,
Oded.