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 enti

Answer 1

Next solution comes from "arturgrigor" and it works great in my apps, just copy it, paste it in viewDidLoad method, and enjoy it :

[my_datePicker setValue:[UIColor whiteColor] forKeyPath:@"textColor"];
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString( @"setHighlightsToday:" );
NSInvocation *invocation = [NSInvocation invocationWithMethodSignature :
                           [UIDatePicker 
                            instanceMethodSignatureForSelector:selector]];
BOOL no = NO;
[invocation setSelector:selector];
[invocation setArgument:&no atIndex:2];
[invocation invokeWithTarget:my_datePicker];

Answer 2

I stumbled upon a surprisingly clean solution using UIAppearance, without using any KVC, swizzling, or otherwise private API. I found that attempting to set the textColor via UIAppearance for any UILabel within a UIDatePicker had no affect, but a custom appearance property that simply called the regular textColor setter worked just fine.

// Implement a custom appearance property via a UILabel category
@interface UILabel (PickerLabelTextColor)

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor * textColorWorkaround UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;

@end

@implementation UILabel (PickerLabelTextColor)

- (UIColor *)textColorWorkaround {
    return self.textColor;
}

- (void)setTextColorWorkaround:(UIColor *)textColor {
    self.textColor = textColor;
}

@end

And then use as follows:

UILabel *pickerLabelProxy = [UILabel appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[UIDatePicker.class]];
pickerLabelProxy.textColorWorkaround = UIColor.lightGrayColor;

Swift Version

UILabel extension:

extension UILabel {
    @objc dynamic var textColorWorkaround: UIColor? {
        get {
            return textColor
        }
        set {
            textColor = newValue
        }
    }
}

Appearance proxy use:

let pickerLabelProxy = UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UIDatePicker.self])
pickerLabelProxy.textColorWorkaround = UIColor.lightGray

Answer 3

[date_picker setValue:textColor forKey:@"textColor"];
[date_picker performSelector:@selector(setHighlightsToday:) withObject:NO];