Uikit

New UIDatePicker in iOS 14

Published on

WWDC2020 brought many interesting and unexpected updates to many old and well known APIs. In this article, we will explore what’s new with UIDatePicker on iOS, an API that has existed since the dawn of time and hasn’t changed much since its introduction.

A Short History on Pickers

UIDatePicker is an API that has existed since the very early days of the iOS SDK - it goes all the way back to iOS 2.0.


New Search APIs in iOS 13

Published on

iOS has always provided interesting search APIs, but they have always been limited and doing the most interesting tasks required you to either write your own implementation or use private APIs.

iOS 13 has provided some very nice improvements to the UI search APIs. In this article we will talk about two of them.

UISearchBar finally exposes its text field

I have been using UISearchController and UISearchBar for a very long time, and I have always found it bizarre that Apple didn’t expose its underlying text field property. As of iOS 13, the search bar finally exposes it, in the form of a UISearchTextField object.