Overview
The Custom Calendar View for the iOS is a great calendar component, really useful in cases that the default date picker that the iOS provides does not fit to the look and feel of your apps! It is suitable where a real calendar view is required that can be easily customized.
Here are some highlights of its most important features:
- It's fully customizable, simply by setting property values.
- Fast transition from month to month is provided, just by scrolling with your finger!
- Easy month and year selection is supported, as a picker view with pre-filled values is appeared every time that months or years subview is tapped on the calendar view.
- Both portrait and landscape orientations are supported.
- Property values can be set in three ways: Using setter methods, editing default constant values, or simply setting values on a .plist file.
- Extensive in-code commenting.
- Detailed documentation regarding the code is provided, as well as a guide on how to integrate the component in your projects.
- The integration and setup is really simple.
The Custom Calendar View component uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and takes advantage of the auto-layout feature.
Works on iOS 6.0 or newer.
**Update**
Ready to integrate it in iOS 7 projects.
Integration into Projects
Integrating the Custom Calendar View in your project is as easy as it can be. Here are the steps required:
At first, you need to add the files (header .h, implementation .m and optionally the .plist for configuring settings) in your project.
Next, import the header file and adopt the Custom Calendar View protocol:
#import "CustomCalendarView.h"
@interface ViewController : UIViewController
Create a public or private Custom Calendar View object:
@property (nonatomic, strong) CustomCalendarView *customCalendar;
Initialize it and let it show on your view controller's view, or on another container view:
_customCalendar = [[CustomCalendarView alloc] initWithFrame:_viewCalendarContainer.frame];
[_customCalendar setDelegate:self];
[_customCalendar showCalendarWithCurrentDateInView:_viewCalendarContainer];
Finally, handle user tappings on calendar days using the provided delegate method:
-(void)dayWasSelectedWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)calendarInfo forCalendar:(CustomCalendarView *)customCalendar{ }
That's all. The Custom Calendar View has been integrated.
There are three methods that can be used to initialize and show the calendar on a parent view:
-(void)showCalendarWithDate:(NSDate *)dtDate inView:(UIView *)parentView;
-(void)showCalendarForMonth:(NSUInteger)month andYear:(NSUInteger)year inView:(UIView *)parentView;
-(void)showCalendarWithCurrentDateInView:(UIView *)parentView;
You can use any of them according to your desire.
Supported Properties
The Custom Calendar View component provides several properties for configuring a lot of its details.
The following short property list apply to months, years, weekdays and days subviews.
- Background, Foreground and Highlighted state color
_(*Note: The highlighted state color setting is not supported for the weedkays, as they are simply UILabels.)_
- Font names and font sizes.
- Border width and border color.
- Corner radius.
- Text shadow color and shadow offset.
Also, the current day (today) can be highlighted using different color sets.
Further than that, a lot of properties exist for setting origin points, widths, heights, gaps, years' starting and ending values, picker view's animation duration, etc.
Finally, many flags can be also set regarding the positioning of months and years, the existence or not of gaps between the subviews (weekday names, days, etc), the appearance and order of the weekday names, the way the month/year picker view should appear (animated or not), whether the current day (today) should be highlighted or not, and more.
All properties are declared as public members in the header file of the Custom Calendar View.
Calendar Setup
The calendar is set up through its properties, and there are three ways to do so.
The first one regards the use of the familiar setter methods, which can be used to set each property's value one by one. For example, to set the months' background color, you can use the following:
[_myCustomCalendar setMonthsButtonBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];
Keep in mind that any property setting should be done prior to any method call that sets up and shows the calendar on your view.
The second way is easier. For every property declared in the header file, a constant value is defined in the implementation file, so as these constants to be used as the default values. You may change the constant values and make that way the calendar to be initialized according to your preferences.
Finally, the third way that is provided for setting the properties is a .plist file, which can be found along with the source files of the component. You simply set the values you desire in this file and the calendar gets initialized by reading them.
Note that the last two ways cannot be used together. There is a BOOL value inside the initWithFrame: method of the calendar component that defines where the default values will be read from. By default, this flag is set to NO, so that the constant values to be used as the default ones.
_shouldReadSettingsFromPlistFile = NO;
It's up to you to change this flag and let the .plist values to be read instead.
From all the three ways for setting the calendar up, the use of the .plist file is the easiest one.
Final Notes
Along with the Custom Calendar View source files in the downloadable file, a demo project also exists to demonstrate the use of the component.
Also, a detailed documentation accompanies it, so everything is as easy as possible for everyone to use the calendar.
Lastly, there are comments everywhere in code, in case you need to modify it.
The Custom Calendar View component has been extensively tested for bugs, however if any found, don't hesitate to report it so as to be fixed as soon as possible.
More information can be found in the downloadable product.
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