What is the iOS alternative to a radio button?

Question

There is a radio button in android and WEB but what is the best alternative in iOS? And please don't say segmented control becuase it's not working in my case.

The case is a list of items 3-6 which have 1-3 words of text each and it is required to pick 1.

Answer 1

Usually this is done using a table view, which is basically a list of items as well, only with a checkmark instead of a radio button. Sometimes such lists are on a new 'page' in the navigation structure. How this fits in your navigational structure depends on the context.

Answer 2

I wrote a highly customizable radio button control for iOS. It supports both obj-c and swift. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

UIPickerView

You may want to use a UIPickerView for something like that.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIPickerView_Class/index.html

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UITableView

There’s plenty of other alternatives that could be good, it really depends on the app’s structure. You’ll notice that lots of the options in Settings use a master/detail pattern for things that are effectively radio buttons. It’s a good way to go, especially with limited screen space.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITableView_Class/index.html

Answer 4

If you are developing an iOS app, you should probably use the Picker control.

As detailed in Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines: "A picker displays a set of values from which a user picks one."

Answer 5

iOS doesn't have a default radio button. You can either use a third-party plugin to create a custom radio button like this or you can use iOS other default elements:

• a picker

• a switch

Answer 6

Check out this easy seven step tutorial - iPhone UIButton tutorial: Radio Buttons by Mobisoft. It is what I have used for the past couple of years. There is too much code to replicate here, so beware of link death in the future. The steps are below:

1. Create a window based application in Xcode and name it “MIRadioButtonGroup”.
2. Create new “MIRadioButtonGroup.h” and “MIRadioButtonGroup.m” files which extend from UIView. (Classes >> Add >> New File >> Objective C Class. Select UIView in the “subclass of” list.)
3. Create a new group in the Classes folder and name it “MIRadioButtonGroup”. Drag the “MIRadioButtonGroup .h” and “MIRadioButtonGroup .m” files into the group.Now, add the images “radio-on.png” and “radio-off.png” to the group.
4. Open the “MIRadioButtonGroup.h” file and make the changes in it, as suggested on the site.
5. Open the “MIRadioButtonGroup.m” file and put the respective code in it.
6. Now that we have created the “MIRadioButtonGroup” files, put the following code in the “MIRadioButtonGroupAppDelegate.m” file so that we can test them.
7. Save, build and run the project. The output will be Output1. Now uncomment the commented lines one by one and observe the output. It will be Output 2, Output 3 and Output 1 respectively.

You can download the source code here.