Question

What’s the besy way to allow a user to select a number on iOS? Basically I have a “form” that allows users to set up a game. One of the options requires them to specify the number of teams.

My first idea was to use a slider, but how would I lay this out? The following doesn’t seem very intuitive:

Select number of teams: 5
C=====O=================D

But then again, this doesn’t look very good either:

Select number of teams:
C========O==========D 5

My second idea was to create a button that when pressed, shows the user a modal view with a UIPickerview but then this seems a bit over the top just to select a number.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well if you have only few choices to select from you might want to use a few buttons with one selected showing different color (and text would indicate value of selection).

Also alternative is to have two buttons +/- and text box which would increment and decrement number of teams.

And finally you can use one of the custom controls:

• http://blog.lemberg.co.uk/iphone-development/custom-dropdown-list/
• http://cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/cdpiemenu