Display datepicker when tapping on UISearchController (Searchbar)

Question

I am using UISearchController programmatically, While tapping on Searchbar textField I want to be set Date picker as inputView

@property (strong, nonatomic) UISearchController *searchController;

References for text field : iPhone display date picker on UITextField touch
But unable to able to access Search bar Textfield. Please help.

Nirav D · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-20T12:20:17.220

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You can get search textField using following code. Write it in viewDidLoad

UITextField *searchBarTextField = [self.searchController.searchBar valueForKey:@"_searchField"];
[searchBarTextField setInputView:datePicker];

Hope this will help you

edited Jun 20 '16 at 12:20

answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:45

Nirav D

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Not at all Datepicker will display – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 12:09
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@property (strong, nonatomic) UISearchController *searchController; – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 12:09
You need to set this line after you have created the search bar programatically – Nirav D Jun 20 '16 at 12:10
Please edit your question with your code that you have write for programatically adding search bar – Nirav D Jun 20 '16 at 12:12
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UISearchController (Search bar) Not available in Storyboard. Need to add in programmatically – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 12:15
This code only when i added UIdatepicker and UIserachcontroll in ViewdidLoad. – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 13:07
I hope your happy now . – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 13:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:42

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First set delegate of UISearchBar then you can use following delegate method :

- (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar*)searchBar {
    [self showDatePicker];
    return NO;
}

-(void) showDatePicker {
    UIDatePicker *datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc]init];
    datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate;
    [datePicker setDate:[NSDate date]];
    [datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(showSelectedDate:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
}

- (void)showSelectedDate:(id)sender {
    UIDatePicker *picker = (UIDatePicker*)self.date.inputView;
    searchBar.text = [self formatDate:picker.date];
}

You can use any date formatter to show date in desired format.

answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:42

Pushkraj Lanjekar

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- (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar*)searchBar { [self showDatePicker]; return NO; If NO nothink will display. If YES Datepicker and Keyboard both will display } – Joyal Clifford Jun 20 '16 at 10:56
Option 1 : Keep return YES in searchBarShouldBeginEditing and in 'showDatePicker' write [searchBar resignFirstResponder]; Option 2 : Add tap gesture on UISearchBar, write @selector for same. And in that gesture method, call 'showDatePicker' method. In this case, don't set delegate for UISearchBar. I think this will work. – Pushkraj Lanjekar Jun 20 '16 at 11:03

Display datepicker when tapping on UISearchController (Searchbar)

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