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Date/time pickers seem to be hard to get right. Android's had its own problems [1]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/december-conspicuousl...
Date/time pickers seem to be hard to get right. Android's had its own problems [1]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/december-conspicuousl...
The issue here is that it's a serious step back, the previous picker worked extremely well, and had worked extremely well since iOS1 IIRC.
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The issue here is that it's a serious step back, the previous picker worked extremely well, and had worked extremely well since iOS1 IIRC.
While it looks cool, I personally find it WAY more efficient to just type in a few numbers on a keypad than to scroll back and forth, whoops, overshot it, scroll back...
I believe the Date Picker is something Apple will fix for sure. It's just not their style and culture to do things difficult for the user. However, there's one major pain I got with the new UI I'd like to share. The new passcode lock screen is also much different than before, and this for me was a BIG problem at the beginning. Surprisingly when I saw the passcode screen for the first time in iOS7 I absolutely forgot…
The UIDatePicker has 322 subviews...
> You’re also not able to tap the AM/PM or minute items to select them, which is completely inconsistent because you can tap the day and hour items! WAT Uh oh, that is a major red flag that the code behind this picker is one terrible mess. It implies that the code used for the time part of the picker is completely separate from the code for the date part.
Hm, it's more likely that when you have a picker column with just a few elements (like only "AM" & "PM"), the tap boundaries aren't adjusted to fill the entire container. The bigger flag is how this wasn't picked up internally, given how prevalent UIDatePicker is in Apple's own apps. I'd be surprised if no one noticed, so am curious to see if this intentional and stays the same, or was truly accidental.
Who gives a shit you can't drag from below "PM" to scroll up? That's the worst you can say?
As for the view hierarchy, cool viz but is it actually slow on old devices? I doubt it. Even an old GPU should handle those transforms no problem since they're the only thing animating.