UIDatePicker does not pop up - ios

Question

In my app, when the user clicks the UITextField, the UIDatePicker should pop up. However, it is not popping up.When I run it, it just shows 'select the date!' on an action sheet and nothing else.
This is my code from my ViewController.m;
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[pd resignFirstResponder]; //the textField that you will set the selected date
datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] init]; //declared uidatepicker component
pickerViewDate = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:#"Select the date!"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:nil
destructiveButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:nil];
datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 210, 320, 216)];
datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate; //set your specific mode
datePicker.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:#"en_US"]]; //or another LocaleIdentifier instead of en_US
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"dd.MM.yyyy"]; //desired format
[datePicker addTarget:self action:#selector(dateChanged) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; //the function would be fired when user change the date in datePicker
//now preparing the toolbar which will be displayed at the top of the datePicker
pickerToolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44)];
pickerToolbar.barStyle=UIBarStyleDefault;
[pickerToolbar sizeToFit];
NSMutableArray *barItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
//UIBarButtonItem *flexSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(doneButtonClicked)]; //barbutton item is "DONE" and doneButtonClicked action will be fired when user clicks the button.
//[barItems addObject:flexSpace]; // set the left of the bar
[pickerToolbar setItems:barItems animated:YES];
[pickerViewDate addSubview:pickerToolbar];
[pickerViewDate addSubview:datePicker];
[pickerViewDate showInView:self.view];
[pickerViewDate setBounds:CGRectMake(0,0,320, 464)]; //you can change the position
}
-(IBAction)dateChanged{
NSDateFormatter *FormatDate = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[FormatDate setLocale: [[NSLocale alloc]
initWithLocaleIdentifier:#"en_US"]];
[FormatDate setDateFormat:#"dd.MM.yyyy"];
pd.text = [FormatDate stringFromDate:[datePicker date]];
}
-(BOOL)closeDatePicker:(id)sender{
[pickerViewDate dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:0 animated:YES];
[pd resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
-(IBAction)doneButtonClicked{
[self closeDatePicker:self];
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
#end
Please I just need help with knowing what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

Read the description of UIActionSheet in the Xcode docs. It says:
UIActionSheet is not designed to be subclassed, nor should you add
views to its hierarchy.
That last bit is important. You can't add a picker view to an action sheet because you're not supposed to add any views to an action sheet.
BTW, UIActionSheet is was in iOS 8, and we are about to move to iOS 9, so it will have been deprecated for 2 major releases as of this week. Thus you should not be doing new development with it. I suggest you create your own view controller and present it modally rather than trying to use UIActionSheet.

Answer 2

You forgot to show UIActionSheet at the end of -(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField:
-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
[pd resignFirstResponder]; //the textField that you will set the selected date
datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] init]; //declared uidatepicker component
pickerViewDate = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:#"Select the date!"
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:nil
destructiveButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:nil];
datePicker = [[UIDatePicker alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 210, 320, 216)];
datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate; //set your specific mode
datePicker.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:#"en_US"]]; //or another LocaleIdentifier instead of en_US
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"dd.MM.yyyy"]; //desired format
[datePicker addTarget:self action:#selector(dateChanged) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; //the function would be fired when user change the date in datePicker
//now preparing the toolbar which will be displayed at the top of the datePicker
pickerToolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44)];
pickerToolbar.barStyle=UIBarStyleDefault;
[pickerToolbar sizeToFit];
NSMutableArray *barItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
//UIBarButtonItem *flexSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(doneButtonClicked)]; //barbutton item is "DONE" and doneButtonClicked action will be fired when user clicks the button.
//[barItems addObject:flexSpace]; // set the left of the bar
[pickerToolbar setItems:barItems animated:YES];
[pickerViewDate addSubview:pickerToolbar];
[pickerViewDate addSubview:datePicker];
[pickerViewDate showInView:self.view];
[pickerViewDate setBounds:CGRectMake(0,0,320, 464)]; //you can change the position
[pickerViewDate showInView:self.view]; // <---- here, maybe you forgot
}