Set text color and font for UIDatePicker in iOS8/Swift

Question

I've been having trouble trying to set the UIDatePicker font and color. Everything else in my app was fairly straightforward to adjust except this. Does anybody know how to do this? I'm using Swift for iOS8.

Answer 1

Changing the date mode to something else seems to force a re-draw with the newly set text color.

datePicker.setValue(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKeyPath: "textColor") datePicker.datePickerMode = .CountDownTimer datePicker.datePickerMode = .DateAndTime //or whatever your original mode was 

Answer 2

you just need to set 2 lines of code in viewdidLoad / viewWillAppear accoding where you using DatePicker.

dobDatePicker.setValue(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKeyPath: "textColor") dobDatePicker.setValue(false, forKey: "highlightsToday") 

See the Result like this: