IOS7 UIPickerView how to hide the selection indicator

Question

How can I hide those 2 lines on the selected row?

Answer 1

[[pickerview.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setHidden:TRUE];
[[pickerview.subviews objectAtIndex:2] setHidden:TRUE];

Use this in titleForRow or viewForRow delegate method of the pickerView .

Answer 2

Based on the other answers, I decided to enumerate the subviews and saw that the lines have a height of 0.5 so my solution now looks like this in Swift:

func numberOfComponentsInPickerView(pickerView: UIPickerView) -> Int {

     pickerView.subviews.forEach({

          $0.hidden = $0.frame.height < 1.0
     })

     return myRowCount
}

And in Objective-C

- (NSInteger)numberOfComponentsInPickerView:(UIPickerView *)pickerView {

     [pickerView.subviews enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(UIView *subview, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {

        subview.hidden = (CGRectGetHeight(subview.frame) < 1.0) 
     }];

    return myRowCount
}

Obviously not particularly future proof, but probably more so than hiding a subview at a given index.

Edit: Updated to handle the case provided by @Loris

Answer 3

In iOS7 setting the parameter pickerview.showsSelectionIndicator has no effect, according to the documentation ( https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/UIKitUICatalog/UIPickerView.html ).

However, as a UIPickerView in the end is a UIView with subviews, I checked what subviews there were. I found 3, the first one contained all the components of the UIPickerView, and the other two are the two lines.

So by setting the second and third (index 1 and 2) hidden, the two lines were removed.

[[pickerview.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setHidden:TRUE];
[[pickerview.subviews objectAtIndex:2] setHidden:TRUE];

It's not a real nice solution, and definitely not forward compatible, but for now it gets the job done. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

This worked for me in Swift in iOS 9 Beta.

datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[1].hidden = true
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[2].hidden = true

Answer 5

Swift 3 Version (Working):

pickerView.subviews[1].isHidden = true
pickerView.subviews[2].isHidden = true

Answer 6

func numberOfComponents(in pickerView: UIPickerView) -> Int
    {
        pickerView.subviews.forEach({
            $0.isHidden = $0.frame.height < 1.0
        })
        return 1
    }

Answer 7

It is working before ios7.

pickerView.showsSelectionIndicator = NO;

for more info in ios7 see this doc

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/UIKitUICatalog/UIPickerView.html

Answer 8

This is easily achieved. Just place your PickerView inside a ScrollView with the desired size of your row, and use the picker delegate(pickerView:rowHeightForComponent:) method to change the the row height of the picker to a little bigger than your ScrollView. Like that, the lines will be hidden.

Answer 9

Swift 4.2

Paste both lines of code into either your titleForRow or viewForRow delegate method of the pickerView.

pickerView.subviews[1].isHidden = true
pickerView.subviews[2].isHidden = true

And you should be good to go.

Answer 10

Swift 5

func pickerView(_ pickerView: UIPickerView, titleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) ->  String? {
        pickerView.subviews[1].isHidden = true
        pickerView.subviews[2].isHidden = true
        return pickerData[row]
}

Answer 11

I solved this by a simple trick: Place picker view in a view, and set clip subviews property of this view = true. Now, just set height of row in picker view = height of container view then the line will disappear.

Answer 12

I opted for a different approach to make it a bit more future proof just in case Apple decide to change something down the line

for subview in setPickerView.subviews{
    if subview.frame.origin.y != 0{
        subview.isHidden = true
    }
}

since the (subView that contains the items)'s origin y location is 0 then I can safely hide anything else without risking an index out of bounds error

Enjoy

EDIT: I forgot to tell you that I put it in the viewDidLayoutSubviews method!

Answer 13

Just write this code in your viewdidload method

[[PickerView.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setHidden:TRUE];
[[PickerView.subviews objectAtIndex:2] setHidden:TRUE];

Answer 14

In ios7 we can't hidden the separate line in UIPickerView and we can know that from this page: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIPickerView_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIPickerView/showsSelectionIndicator

But we can add two UIViews to cover it and the width of two UIViews is 1. Some sample code here:

s_leftLine = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(s_pickerView.frame.size.height/2,
                                                      s_pickerView.frame.size.width/2 - kWidthOfPickerPage/2 + 1,
                                                      1,
                                                      s_pickerView.frame.size.height)];
s_leftLine.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
s_leftLine.layer.zPosition = s_pickerView.layer.zPosition + 1; // make sure the line is on the top
[s_pickerView addSubview:s_leftLine];

Ok, this will be much better :] if someone has better answer just write it down for sharing :)

Answer 15

This code works fine for iOS 10 with swift 3

Just add this code in your view controller class.

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
        timePickerView.subviews[1].isHidden = true
        timePickerView.subviews[2].isHidden = true
        }

Answer 16

You can also make an extension to UIPickerView:

extension UIPickerView {
    func hideSelectionIndicator() {
        for i in [1, 2] {
            self.subviews[i].isHidden = true
        }
    }
}

And then just call myPickerView.hideSelectionIndicator() for each PickerView you want to alter.