iOS: best way to list items in variate amount?

Question

For example, I have a form, where I should input date, country and my gender.

date(many) - is very-very big list, so, apple make picker for it. Good one.
country(several) - everybody know about countries, there can be twelve, fifteen or one hundred countries to choose. So, I suppose, that should be a list like a table view.
gender(few) - and what about things like gender?
Only two/three/four items to be chosen?
What is the best way to layout them?

Answer 1

The best way to go when offering small amounts of options is checkboxes or toggles. It's easy to use, you can find out what are the options at a glance, and you know what to do.

Your goal should be to make it feel intuitive and natural, minimizing interactions (number of clicks/taps).

Classic checkboxes

The facebook mobile website uses the classic checkbox element to choose your gender. The con is that it's something you're not that used to see in the native iOS UI, the pro is that it's easy to implement more than two options (Male, Female, "Don't want to tell"?).

Small Toggle

If you want to choose between only two values (male or female), a slide is an easy way to show two exclusive choices. But as some people pointed out in other posts (see this question), you may introduce confusion: is the displayed gender the current selection or should I press is to select that gender? (state vs action)

Gender by Alexey Anatolievich on Dribbble

Note: Some users might be upset with the stereotype "blue for boys, pink for girls".

Toggle

Here is a more native iOS looking solution, you can indeed remove the image above the Male/Female selector. It may be more obvious which one is selected (compared to the toggle above).

Drink It Smart, iOS App